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JAN 31 1901 
D. of D. 




JOHN P. ALTGELD, 

Governor of Illinois. 



LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



THE GOVERNOR. 

It is an honor to be the chief execu- 
tive over four millions of people. It 
is a greater honor to be chosen chief 
executive under the peculiar conditions 
that maintained during- the tierce cam- 
paig"n of 1892 in Illinois. Illinois v^as 
admitted to the Union in 1818, and im- 
mediately its sparse population decid- 
ed almost unanimously for the princi- 
ples of Jefferson and Madison and 
Monroe. There was no break in the 
phalanx of democratic victories from 
that time until '56, when a combina- 
tion of slavery, knownothing-ism and 
restlessness at the arrogance of dem- 
ocratic leaders turned the state over to 
the Republicans — which party almost 
immediately after the election absorb- 
ed the majority of the "American" 
element, which was a considerable 
factor in the campaign of '56. Buchan- 
an's electors carried the state, also. 
From that day to Jan. 10, 1893, there 
was no serious break in the republi- 
can column, except in '62. To be sure 
the legislature was democratic until 
'65, and a fusion with the greenbackers 
enabled them to elect a superintendent 
of public instruction in '74. But for 
over thirty years Illinois was set down 
as good for 25,000 to 50,000 republican 
plurality. The result of last fall's 
election dazed republicans and dem- 
ocrats. While Michig-an, Iowa, Kan- 
sas, Wisconsin, Ohio and other rock- 
bound republican states had at times 
wandered from the path of republi- 
canism, it was believed that nothing- 
could affect Illinois. 

And so the democrats entered the 
campaign of '92 without hope. Gov. 
John P. Altgeld expected to be elect- 
ed, and those nearest him predicted it 
with confidence. The energy, ability 
and talent for organization, possessed 
b}^ the democratic candidate for gov- 
ernor in a great measure decided the 
contest. Judg-e Altgeld's promise to 
the convention that his "would be a 
strictly business administration," if 
elected, is being- carried out. He is a 
business man who applies business 
principles in the discharg-e of his offi- 
cial duties. And he demands qualifi- 
cations other than party service — al- 
though that is also necessary — from 
the men he appoints to office. He has 
filled the more important places with 
men who will carry out his policy, and 
the press has generally endorsed them. 

John P. Altgeld was born in Prus- 
sia in 1848, and came to this country 



with his parents when a boy, the 
father settling on a farm near Mans- 
field, Ohio. At this early date he be- 
gan to show those studious traits and 
mental powers that have since raised 
him to eminence. He worked hard 
and studied his books when he could 
steal a few minutes. He attended the 
schools when work on the farm was 
not pressing, and at the age of 16 en- 
listed in Co. C, 164th O. Inf., and went 
to the front, participating in the cam- 
paign of Grant that closed the war. 
Returning home he spent the next few 
years alternately teaching school, 
studjdng and working- as a farm hand. 
Then he went west to St. Ivouis where 
he read law in a destxltory waj'. and 
afterwards in the office of Haven & 
Rea, Savannah, Mo. His industry 
and faculty for diving to the heart of 
his subject broug-ht clients, fame and 
prosperity. In '74 he was elected pros- 
ecuting attorney of Andrew county, 
but in October, '75, he resig-ned his 
office, sold his furniture and moved 
to Chicago. He took little interest in 
politics for several years, but in '84 
ran for cong-ress in an overwhelming- 
republican district. He was defeated, 
but cut down the republican majority. 
In '86 without solicitation on his part 
he was nominated for superior judge 
of Cook county, at that time about 
12,000 republican. He hesitated some 
time before accepting-, but finally did 
so, and so thorough a canvas did he 
make, and so perfect was his org-aniza- 
tion, that notwithstanding- defections 
from the democratic party and quar- 
rels within the ranks, he was elected 
by a large majority, the laboring men 
being- especially active in his interest. 
A mtxltiplicity of private interests 
compelled him to resig-n his place on 
the bench in August, '91. He has be- 
come quite wealthy, principally by 
shrewd buying- and sellings of real es- 
tate in Chicago, a proper field for a 
man with capital and sharp business 
instinct. He also has been interested 
in street railways in various cities. 
He was nominated for governor on the 
first ballot in the democratic conven- 
tion in April, '92, and made two hard 
canvasses of the state — one a prelimi- 
nary trip in which he visited every 
county to learn the conditions, and 
g-ive instructions for organization, and 
another to address the people on the 
issues of the dcLj. In '78 he married 
Miss Bmma Ford, an accomplished 
ladj' who has already become very 
popular in Springfield society. 



LKC.ISLATIVK SorVKNIK. 



THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 



Joseph B. Gill, President of the Sen- 
ate and lyieutenant Governor, served 
two terms in the house in '89 and '91 
and was nominated on the first ballot 
in April, '92, for lievitenant g-overnor 
b^' the democratic state convention. 
He was born on a farm near Marion, 
Williamson connt.y, Feb. 17, 1862, and 
is the young-est lieutenant governor 
ever elected in this state. In '63 his 
family moved to De Soto, Jackson 
county, and in '68 to Murphysboro, 



About the first office he asked from 
his party was to the house in '88 
and it was given him, also a return for 
faithful services in '90. In both gen- 
eral assemblies he was a strong anti- 
corporation man, and championed the 
cause of the laboring people on every 
measure that came up of interest to 
them. He was instrumental in secur- 
ing the passage of the gross weight 
bill, the weekly pa^^ bill, the anti- 
truck store bill, and did all he could to 
advance the arbitration bill to a suc- 
cessful issue. His efforts to benefit a 
class of people who have few friends 




where he has lived ever since. He 
was educated in the public schools, at 
the Christian Brothers Colleg-e in St. 
L,ouis, and at the Southern Illinois 
Normal, at Carbondale, graduating 
from the latter in June, '84. Then he 
completed a law term of two 3'ears at 
Ann Arbor, g-raduating in July, '86, 
and was admitted to the Michigan 
bar, passing an examination before 
the supreme and circuit courts of that 
state. He never practiced his pro- 
fession, but returning home engaged 
in newspaper work, bu^-ing- an inter- 
est in the Murphysboro Independent, 
which he conducted and edited up to 
Jan. 1, '93, 



in the leg"islature, were appreciated, 
and soon after the legislature of '91 
adjourned, there was a demand for 
him to go on the state ticket. Resolu- 
tions were adopted in many lodges and 
unions commending Gov. Gill to the 
democratic state convention and urg- 
ing his nomination. An unusual in- 
terest was taken in his election be- 
cause of the close relations between the 
candidate and the class whose cause 
he had championed in the legislature. 
He was triumphantly elected, running 
ahead of most of his colleagues on the 
Democratic state ticket. He is an im- 
partial presiding officer, and has won 
the respect of the senators already. 



LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 

William H. Hinrichsen, Secretary- of 
State, was born in Franklin. 111., Maj^ 
27, 18.S0, and educated at the Illinois 
Universit3^ His father was born in 
the Grand Duch3^ of Mecklenberg", and 
emigrated to America when a boy. 
His mother was born in Morgan coun- 
t3% and her father, who was a soldier 
of the war of 1812, came from Virginia. 
After leaving the Universit}^ Mr. Hin- 
richsen entered the office of the gen- 
eral stock agent of the Wabash rail- 



Hinrichsen returned to Jacksonville to 
resume editorial charge of The Courier, 
but the democratic caucus in Jan. '91 
chose him bj' acclama.tion for clerk of 
the house, and after the legislature 
adjourned he entered into the work of 
the campaign of '92 with his ustial 
vigor and discretion. As a member of 
the executive comnaittee of the state 
committee, he made a careful canvass 
of ever^- counts' in the state, paving 
the waj' b^' an intelligent observation 
of the condition of the party and sug- 
gestions as to organization, for the 
sweeping triumph of '92. He was named 




road, remaining for four years and re- 
signing to become deputy sheriff of 
Morgan county in '74. He was there 
for three terms, and was elected sheriff 
in '80. Two years later he bought an 
interest in The Bvening Courier with 
Geo. E. Dojdng, and declining a re- 
nomination for sheriff, he entered the 
newspaper business with vigor. He 
edited The Courier until '86, when the 
firm purchased The Ouincy Daily Her- 
ald, and he went over to take charge 
of it. He soon raised it to the front 
rank among provincial dailies, and 
made its influence as a democratic 
organ felt all over western Illinois. 
In '90 The Herald was sold and Mr. 



for secretary of state on first ballot. He 
had charge of the press bureau during 
the campaign. When he was 21 he was 
elected justice of the peace in a strong 
republican precinct. He has been a 
delegate to every democratic state 
convention since he was old enough to 
vote. He has been a member, and 
chairman or secretary most of the 
time, of the Morgan and Adams county 
committees since he reached the vot- 
ing age. He was on the executive 
committee of the state committee dur- 
ing the campaign of '90, and resigned 
when nominated for secretary of state. 
In '73 he married Miss Louise Sparks, 
and has two sons and one daughter. 



I.KOISr.ATlVE SOUVENIR. 



THE STATE TREASURER. 



An epitome of the life of Rufus N. 
Ramsay, State Treasurer, will con- 
tain no failures as a politician and no 
scars as a servant of the people. His 
life has been that of an honorable and 
industrious g-entleman who accepts of- 
fice as a duty, and who discharg-es 
his official responsibilities with fidel- 
ity, honesty and energ"y. Popular, 
of course, for he always ran ahead 
of his ticket. As a member of the 
house in '89 and '91 he was a safe 



ated from the State Universit}' at 
Blooining'ton, Ind., in '64. Then he 
.studied law with Gov. French and also 
with Judg-e Underwood at Belleville; 
admitted to the bar in '65, and prac- 
ticed for .several years in Carlyle. He 
g-radually became interested in farm 
lands and real estate, and quit the law 
at a time when he had a large and 
lucrative practice. In '70 the banks of 
Ramsa3' & Seiter, of Carlyle, and 
Seiter & Ramsay, of lycbanon, were 
organized and prospered until '80, 
when the partnership was dissolved, 
the resident partner in each city tak- 




leader, with a strong following of the 
best element. He saw the objection- 
able features in the compulsory educa- 
tion law of '89, and was denied the 
privilege of explaining his vote bj' the 
house. He did say during the confu- 
sion and objections that he was a 
friend of compulsor3^ education, but 
the present bill possessed several ob- 
jectionable features, and he could not 
vote for it. He is a quiet, unostenta- 
tious man, shrewd as a politician, and 
a tireless worker. 

Rufus N. Ramsay was born on a 
Clinton county farm May 20, 1838, and 
spent three years at Illinois College, 
some time at McKendree, and gradu- 



ing complete control. He was elected 
county clerk in '65 when every county 
officer was a republican, and was re- 
elected. He has done as much or more 
than any other one man to make Clin- 
ton county democratic by 900 to 1,100. 
He is a Presbyterian. In '64 he mar- 
ried Miss Julia Toney, and has two 
daughters and one son. Is largely in- 
terested in farm lands and Chicago 
and St. Louis real estate. His father, 
who came to Illinois in '16 from South 
Carolina, is strong- and vigorous at 88, 
and was in Springfield inaug-uration 
day. He is the oldest democrat in the 
state, and a man whose whole life has 
been above reproach. 



IvEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 



There have been few democrats in 
the office of Superintendent of Public 
Instruction of the state of Illinois 
since 1857, when the republicans took 
control of the state g^overnment. In 
fact Henry Raab, of Belleville, is the 
only democrat that has ever been 
elected to the office on a straight party 
platform and ticket. He was elected 
in '82 by about 3,000 plurality. The 
state went republican by 40,000 in '80. 
He declined a renomination in '86 but in 



vention, but it was discouraged by Mr. 
Raab, who has little taste for political 
life. 

Henry Raab was born in Wetzlar, 
Rhenish Prussia, June 20, 1837. He 
was educated in the Kindergarten, 
public school and Royal Gymnasium 
of his native city ; also by private tu- 
tors. After leaving school he learned 
the trade of a currier in his father's 
shops and emigrated to the United 
States in '53, finding work at his trade 
in Cincinnati. The year following he 
went to St. Ivouis and later on to 
Belleville, where he was for a time en- 




■was named against his will and was 
elected by a plurality of over 34,000 
running far ahead of the ticket. 

In his capacity of superintendent of 
public instruction he took a firm stand 
for the better supervision of schools 
and the better education of teachers. 
He discharged his duties in a quiet un- 
ostentatious manner, yet with an en- 
ergy and ability that made him many 
friends among the school teachers and 
■educators in the state. At the close of 
his first administration he returned to 
Belleville to superintend the public 
schools of that city. His name was 
urged in many quarters for governor 
■before the last democratic state con- 



gaged in clerking. During all this 
time he was a close student of political 
and economic questions, and in '57 be- 
came a teacher in the public schools of 
Belleville. In '60 he was elected libra- 
rian of the St. Clair county library, an 
office which he held until '83, when the 
city of Belleville assumed control of 
that institution. In the teaching pro- 
fession he rose to be a principal, and 
in '73 was made city superintendent of 
schools of Belleville, which office he 
held until he was elected superinten- 
dent of public instruction in '82. In 
'59 he was married to Miss Mathilda 
Von Ivcngerken, and has one son and 
two daughters. 



I,EGISI,ATIVK SOUVrCNIK. 



THE ATTORNEY=QENERAL. 



Maurice T. Maloney, Attorney-Gen- 
eral, was born in County Kerry, Ire- 
land, July 26, 1849. After a thorough 
course in the common schools he en- 
tered Listowel Seminary, graduating- 
in the classical course. He moved to 
America in '67, and began a course of 
study in moral philosophy in the 
Niagara Falls Seminary of Our Lady 
of Angels. Afterwards he studied 
theology in Wheeling, and taught 
school for a time iu Wytheville, Va. 



election he has commenced suit against 
Ex-Auditors I^ippincott, Swigert and 
Pavey and their bondsmen to recover 
fees alleged to be illegally diverted 
and retained. 

Although he has been in office less 
than three months at this writing Mr. 
Moloney has rendered several opinions 
of great importance. And the best 
legal talent as well as the great news- 
papers — republican and democratic — 
agree with his conclusions. The opin- 
ion in regard to the right of the canal 
commissioners of the Illinois & Michi- 
gan Canal to turn over to the trustees 




In '69 he entered the University of 
Virginia, near Charlottesville, founded 
by Thomas Jefferson, from which he 
graduated in '71 with the Bachelor of 
L,aws degree. He then moved to Ot- 
tawa, 111., where he has since lived and 
had a very successful practice. 

He was city attorney of Ottawa for 
four years, states attorney of LaSalle 
county from '84 to '88, and prosecuted 
all the boodlers, recovering some 
$50,000 for the county. He was legal 
advisor to the board of supervisors for 
seven years. He was nominated for 
attorney-general in the democratic 
state convention in '92 on the first bal- 
lot with four candidates. Since his 



of the Chicago Drainage District a 
portion of the canal for sanitary pur- 
poses, is probably the most important 
one. Important, also, are his careful- 
ly prepared views on the right of the 
state auditor to retain a part of the 
fees from the insurance companies; in 
regard to the right of the auditor to 
employ a Chicago attorney, and in re- 
gard to treasurers loaning public funds. 
He is a man of indomitable energy, 
and has made a very favorable im- 
pression already on the people of the 
state. In 1873 he married Miss 
Annie J. Graham, of Ottawa, and has. 
five children — three sons and twe» 
daughters. 



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IvEGISIvATlVE SOUVENIR. 



THE ADJUTANT=GENERAL. 



Gen. Alfred Orendorff,Adjutant Gen- 
eral of the state of Illinois, was born 
July 29, 1845, in Logan county, and 
was educated at the Wesle^^an Univer- 
sity, Blooniington, and the military 
school at Fulton, Illinois. In '6(3 
Gen. Orendorfp graduated from the 
Albany, N. Y., Law School, with the 
degree of Bachelor of Laws. He be- 
gan practice in Springfield in '67 with 
the firm of Herndon & Zane. The 
firm was successively Herndon & Oren- 



and ratified by the democrats, for the 
Illinois house, and was elected. He 
took an active part as a member of the 
judiciary committee in revising the 
laws of the state in conformity with 
the constitution of '70. He has been 
chairman of the democratic state com- 
mittee for several years, and was dele- 
gate to several national democratic 
conventions. In '82 as candidate for 
state treasurer he pulled a republican 
majority of 40,000 down to about 5,000, 
and four years later he made another 
splendid run for the same office. He 
is vice president of the German- Amer- 




dorff and Orendorff & Creighton. 
When Judge Creighton was elected 
to the circuit bench, he formed a 
partnership with Robert H. Patton, 
under the firm name of Orendorff & 
Patton, which still exists, and is one 
of the strongest in Central Illinois. 

Originally he was a republican, he 
took the first step towards democracy 
in '72, when so many republicans of 
liberal views joined the struggling 
party of the common people. In '72 
he was a delegate to the democratic 
national convention, and heartily 
favored the nomination of Judge 
Lyman Trumbull for president. In 
'73 he was nominated hj the liberals 



ican Loan association and of the 
Franklin Life Insurance company of 
this city, and has large interests in 
real estate. He has held the highest 
offices within the gift of the Odd Fel- 
lows ; has been representative to the 
sovereign grand lodge of the world 
every year since 1880. In 1870 he 
inarried Julia, the daughter of Col. 
John Williams, one of the wealthiest 
and most respected pioneers of Illi- 
nois, and has two daughters and one 
son. He was appointed adjutant-gen- 
eral by Gov. Altgeld Jan. 20, 1893, an 
appointment that was most cordially 
received in every quarter of the state, 
as well as elsewhere where he is known. 



ILLINOIS STATE LIBRARY. 



I.KGISLATIVK SOrVKNIK. 



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SUPREHE COURT REPORTER. 



The oldest Supreme Court Reporter 
in the United States is Norman L. 
Freeman, of Illinois, and there is none 
more accurate or more satisfactory to 
the lawyers and judges. The position is 
one of peculiar difHculty, and requires 
qualifications above that of a lawyer, 
or even a judjj;-e. Indeed, Illinois law- 
yers frequently cjuote the sylkibus of a 
supreme court decision in preference 
to the words of the justice. Judg-e 
Freeman has a happy faculty pos- 



secrets of the court. He has a hand- 
some home in Springfield, and is a 
democrat of the old school. 

Norman L,. Freeman was born in 
Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., Miiy 
9, 1823. His parents, Truman and 
Hannah (Dow) Freeman, trace their 
ancestry back to the early pioneers. 
In '31 he accompanied his widowed 
mother to Ann Arbor, and six years 
later they moved to Detroit. He 
worked in his brother's store in Cleve- 
land for a time, and in '40 entered an 
academy in that city. From there he 
went to the Ohio University, at Athens, 




sessed by few men, of extracting the 
kernel from the shell of a decision, 
and painting it in short terse sentences. 
It is this that renders him so valuable 
in his capacit^^ of reporter of the su- 
preme court, and makes his reports 
models of excellence and reliability. 
He has edited and published 106 vol- 
umes of Illinois Reports, embodying 
over 7,000 cases. He is the personifi- 
cation of courtesy and accommodation. 
By nature of his office he is close to 
the justices of the court. No doubt 
he has been approached many times 
by interested litigants for information 
in regard to pending cases, but he was 
never known to violate the sacred 



and had for fellow students S. S. Cox 
and Milton Latham. In '43 he moved 
to Kentucky and taught school to pay 
his expenses while studying law. In 
'46 he began the practice of lais profes- 
sion in Morg-anfield, Ky. The g"reat 
strug^'gle between the north and south 
compelled him to move to a more 
peaceful state than Kentucky, for he 
inherited many Quaker principles from 
his mother's family. In '62 he moved 
to Shawneetown, and it; April '63, was 
appointed reporter of the supreme 
court, and has held the office ever 
since. In December, '49, he married 
Miss Tranquilla Richeson, and has four 
children — a son and three daughters. 



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LEGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 



SUPREME=APPELLATE COURTS. 



The state of Illinois was divided 
half a centtiry ago into three grand 
divisions of the supreme court. The 
seat of the Central Grand Division is 
located at Springfield. 




E. A. SNIVBLT. 

BTHAN A. SNIVEI.Y, Clerk of the 
Supreme Court, Central Grand Divi- 
sion, was born in Cuba, Fulton, Co., 
111., Feb. 17, 1845, and received a com- 
mon school education. In '60 he en- 
tered the office of The Squatter Sover- 
eign, at Havana, to learn the printing 
business. Before he was 21 years old 
he assumed editorial and business 
management of The Rushville Times, 
and conducted the paper for over two 
years. In July, '68 he beg-an the pub- 
lication of The Galesburg Times, and 
for nearly a year he preached radical 
democracy in a county that gave near- 
ly 3,000 republican majority. Then he 
edited The Pekin Register for a few 
months, resigning in the fall of '69 to 
become city editor of The Peoria Daily 
National Democrat. In Oct. '71 he as- 
sumed control of The Macoupin En- 
quirer at Carlinville, which he con- 
ducted until April, '77, when he relin- 
quished it and engaged in the agricul- 
tural implement business. In '79 he 
assumed editorial control of The Ma- 
coupin Herald at Carlinville, and in 
'80 this paper was consolidated with 
The Fnquirer, which he edited until 
'83, when he sold it. In '78 he was 
elected clerk of the supreme court, and 
was re-elected in '84 and '90 by in- 
creased majorities, the last two times 
having no opposition in the democratic 
convention. He was president of the 



Illinois Press Association in '79 and 
'80, and is a very active honorary 
member now. The first work he did in a 
printing office was to assist in getting 
out an extra — on Sunday — annotmcing 
the first nomination of Abraham Lin- 
coln for president. There were few 
railroads and no telegraph in the west 
then, and it took three days for the 
news to reach Havana. 



The Appellate Court, Third District, 
comprises the same counties as Central 
Grand Division, Supreme Court; it was 
organized in '77; the present incumbent 
is the first clerk elected by the people. 

GEORGE W. JONES, Clerk of the 
Appellate Court, Third District, came 
to Illinois with his parents when a. 
child and was raised at Griggsville 
and in Pike county, one of the most 
fertile and beautiful counties in the 
state. He received a good common 
school education, and was clerk of the 
circuit court of Pike county from '60' 
to '64, and '72 to '76. He also held 
several minor offices, member of the 
board of supervisors, the board of ed- 
ucation, etc. In '78 he was elected 
clerk of the appellate court, and was 
re-elected in '84 and '90 by increased 
majorities ; was nominated by accla- 
mation in the democratic convention 
in '84-'90. He is a strong democrat. 




and an enthusiastic Cleveland man. 
In '50 he was married to Miss Celia 
Bennett, of Marshall Co., 111., and has 
two sons — Frank H., member of the 
last house of representatives and a 
promising young attorney of Spring- 
field, and Fred. B., of the Adams & 
Westlake Manufacturing Co., Chicago. 



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13 



THE RAILROAD COnniSSION. 



Probably the most important board 
littached to the state administration is 
the Railroad and Warehouse Commis- 
sion, org-anized in 1870. It is composed 
of three members, who draw $3,500 




WM S. CANTRELL. 

each per annum, and expenses, and a 
secretary at $2,500. Term of office two 
years ; Gov. Altg^eld appointed the 
present board Jan. 23, '93, and they 
were immediately confirmed by the 
senate. The board consists of Wm. S. 
Cantrell, of Benton, Charles F. Lape 
of Springfield and Thomas Gahan of 
Chicag-o, with John W. Yantis of Shel- 
t)3'ville as secretary. 

WIIvLIAM S. CANTRELL, Chair- 
man of the Board, was born in Benton, 
111., Feb. 6, 1851, and educated at the 
State University, Blooming^ton, Ind., 
taking- the scientific course. He at- 
tended the Law School, at Shaw- 
neetown, conducted by Judg-e A. D. 
Duff, and was admitted to the bar 
in June, '74, and has practiced his 
profession ever since. He was states 
attorney of Franklin county for four 
3'ears. He was married in March, '82 
to Miss Jennie Burnett, of Shaw- 
neetown, and they have two chil- 
dren, a boy and a g^irl. He always 
has been very active in politics, 
and was a delegate to the National 
Democratic convention of '88, and took 
a lively interest in the campaign of 
'92. He was an enthusiastic friend of 
■Gov. Altg-eld before the democratic 
state convention, and devoted his tal- 
ents and time to the election of the 
democratic state ticket, in the triumph 



of which he contributed not a little. 
He is a member of the g^rand lodge of 
Illinois, A. F. & A. M. and was on the 
law committee of the lodge — the com- 
mittee on appeals and g^rievances — for 
ten years. He is also one of the su- 
preme officers of the Knig-hts of Hon- 
or. He was strong-l\' endorsed for his 
present place, aud devotes his entire 
time to the duties of the office. 

CHAS. F. LAPE, was born in Zanes- 
ville, O., Nov. 22, 1842, and received a 
common school education while work- 
ing- on a farm up to the time he was 
14 years old. Then he entered a boiler 
shop in Zanesville and learned the 
trade, remaining- until '60, when he 
beg-an braking for the Cincinnati, 
Wilmington & Zanesville railroad, 
now a laranch of the Pennsylvania. 
In the spring- of '61 he enlisted in 
Co. A, 3d O. Inf., but being under 
age his mother had his name stricken 
from the roll. Then he went on the 
L. & N. as brakeman, between Louis- 
ville and Nashville remaining until 
the spring of '62, when he accepted a 
place in the Ft. Wayne shops of the 
Wabash railroad. In '63 he worked for 
the I. & St. L., now the Big Four, at 
Litchfield, and in the spring'- of '64 he 
changed to the Illinois Central shops 
at Centralia. He was promoted to be 
assistant foreman and remained until 
'73, when he returned to the Ft. 




Wayne shops as foreman. In '82 he 
was made general foreman of the An- 
drews shops by J. B. Barnes. In '83 
he removed to Danville, and assumed 
charge of the Tilton shops. Soon after 
he was made assistant master me- 
chanic with headquarters at Mt. Car- 
mel, and in '85 received his last pro- 



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I^EGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 



motion, being made master mechanic 
of the Springfield shops, which place 
he held until appointed to his present 
position. He married Miss Nancj^ 
Brown in Centralia, in '66, and has 
had four children, two of whom sur- 
vive — a boy and girl. He is a Mason, 
an Klk, a director in two building and 




TH08. GAHAN. 

loan associations, and in the Franklin 
Ivife Insurance company. He is a 
lyutheran in religion, and never took 
a very active part in politics, being 
appointed to his present place on ac- 
cotmt of his knowledge of railroading 
— an appointment that met with gen- 
eral satisfaction. 

THOMAS GAHAN was born in Cook 
county, near Chicago, in 1849, and re- 
ceived a good common school educa- 
tion. In '66 he began life for himself 
as stock shipper for Nels Morris, and 
from '68 to '69 he represented Cragin 
& Hancock, packers in the Red River 
country. He was appointed patrolman 
of the Town of I^ake in '70 when the 
force consisted of only three men; was 
promoted to be sergeant in '74; in '77 
was made captain, which office he held 
until '84 when he was elected super- 
visor, treasurer and chief of police of 
the Town of Ivake, three offices at that 
time consolidated. During the two 
years he held this office he handled 
$6,000,000 of the people's money. In 
'86 under the firm name of Gahan & 
Burns he engaged in the business of 
contracting for the building of sewers, 
laying water mains, etc. In '89 was 
elected alderman from the 29th ward, 
and started the fight to clear the Lake 
Front of the old exposition building 
and the B. & O. depot, in which he 
was successful. He was re-elected in 



'90, and resigned to accept his present 
office from Gov. Altgeld. When he 
entered the city council there was not 
a paved street in his ward, and when 
he left it, every street in his ward that 
was sewered had been paved or con- 
tracted to be paved. He is a member 
of the Iroquois Club, the Cook County 
Democracy, and the Marching Club, 
also of the I. O. F. and the A. O. U. 
W. He is a shrewd politician and con- 
tributed greatly to the success of the 
democratic ticket in the recent elec- 
tion. 

JOHN W. YANTIS, Secretary of the 
Board, was born in Shelby county, 
May 13, 1855, and was educated at 
Westfield College and Bryant & Strat- 
tan's Business College, Chicago. He 
began life as clerk in a mercantile 
store in Shelbj^ville, and in '77 formed 
a partnership with his brother-in-law 
and bought a stock of dry goods, boots 
and shoes, which continued until '89,. 
when he went into the real estate, loan 
and insurance business, which was his 
occupation, when he was appointed 
secretary of the board, March 1, '93. 
He was chairman of the county board 
for three years, and after his first race 
was elected without opposition. He 
was a member of the state board of 
equalization froin '86 to '90. In '82 he 
married Miss Cordelia A. James, of 
Shelby county, and has four children. 




three girls and one boy. He attends 
the Christian church. He is a Mason, 
an Odd Fellow, an A. O. U. W. a 
Modern Woodman, and has been a 
representative to the grand lodge of 
Odd Fellows. Was on the committee 
on appeals for several years, and was 
chairman the last term. He is also on 



I.KOISI.ATIVK SOl'VKNIK 



15 



the Cenniiiittee on the state of the or- 
der in the Grand Encampment. Is 
chairnrin of the committee on appeals 
of the grand lodge, A. O. U. W., and 
is one of the trustees of the Odd Fel- 
lows Orphans' Home, at Lincoln. He 
has always been a working democrat 
in his section of the state. 




JAS. H. I'ADDOUK. 

JAMES H. PADDOCK, of this city, 
retiring secretary of the board, is one 
of the best known men connected with 
the politics of Illinois. For twenty- 
eight years past he has been in 
Springfield during the sessions of the 
general assembly. He was born in 
Lockport, 111., May, 29, 1850, and re- 
ceived a good common school educa- 
tion. He was page in the senate in '65. 
In '67 he was assistant postmaster of 
the senate, and in '69, '71, '73 and '75 
he was assistant secretary of the sen- 
ate. In '77, '79 and '81 he was secre- 
tary of the senate. From '81 to '89 he 
was assistant secretary' of state, and 
early in '89 he was appointed secretary 
of the railroad and warehouse commis- 
sion, which position he filled until 
March 1, '93, when the change in ad- 
ministration permitted all the republi- 
can officials to retire. In '77 Mr. Pad- 
dock received the entire vote of the 
senate for secretary, when the farmers 
held the balance of power, and in '75 
the democrats had the organization of 
the senate and they made him assist- 
ant secretary. He has never swerved 
from republicanism. Undoubtedly he 
has a wider acquaintance among the 
public men of Illinois than any other 
man in the state, and in every position 
he has occupied he has discharged his 
duties with an energy and faithfulness 
that commended him to his superiors. 



In "73 he married Miss Mary L. Craw- 
ford, of Kankakee, and they have two 
children — a boy and girl. 

THE PRINTER EXPERT. 

Arthur L,. Hereford, Printer Expert, 
was born in Secor, Woodford Co., 111., 
April 1, 1858, and educated in the com- 
mon school. He graduated from the 
Union College of Law, Chicago, in '78 
and was admitted to the bar at Mt. 
Vernon in '79. He went west, and 
practiced for a short time at Concor- 
dia, Kan. In '80 he was nominated by 
the democratic state convention for 
attorney general of Kansas. He was 
prominent in Kansas politics for sev- 
eral years, and was vice president of 
the Leagtie of Democratic Clubs of 
that state in '80. But dollai's were 
nearly as scarce as democrats in the 
Grasshopper state, and Mr. Hereford 
returned to Illinois, purchasing The El 
Paso Journal in Jan. '81, which he ran 
until Jan. '85, when he went to Chi- 
cago, and worked as a reporter on the 
staffs of The Chicago News. Tribune 
and other papers until '88. Then he 
returned to Woodford count}' and 
started The Metamora Herald, a dem- 
ocratic paper, which he ran until 
'91, when he sold out and purchased 




A. L. iu;kei"oku. 

The Mattoon Star, which he owns at 
this time. He was an enrolling and 
engrossing clerk of the house in the 
session of '91, and was appointed 
printer expert by Gov. Altgeld Jan. 
19, '93. In Nov. '79, he married Miss 
Helen M. Jacqitin, of Metamora, and 
has one son and one daughter. 



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17 



THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 

For the first time in exactly thirty 
years a democratic j^eneral assembly 
convened in vSprinf,'-field on the 4th day 
of January, 1893. It was more note- 
worthy from the fact that every de- 
partment of the state g-overnment, and 
every office was filled or soon to be 
fillecl by democrats. The General As- 
sembly for the State of Illinois oper- 
ates under a constitution adopted by 
the people in 1870— the fourth instru- 
ment of the kind that has been sub- 
mitted to the people, and the third that 
has been ratified and adopted — the 
constitution of 1862 having-- been re- 
jected at the polls. The general a.s- 
sembly meets biennially at noon on 
the first Wednesday after the finst 
Monday in January in odd-numbered 
years. It consists of a senate and a 
house of representatives numbering- 
on joint ballot, 204. This is the 
Thirtv-eig-hth General Assembly. In 
the biog-raphies that follow the dis- 
tricts are not g-iven, because it is ex- 
pected that the present legislature will 
reapportion the state. 



THE SENATE. 

The Senate consists of 51 members, 
who are elected for four years, or two 
regular sessions. Senators from the 
odd numbered districts are elected at 
the same time as state treasurer and 
sviperintendent of public instruction — 
1886, 1890, 1894, etc. Senators from 
even-numbered districts are elected in 
presidential years— 1888, 1892, 1896, 
etc. Senators receive $5 per diem 
during the session, $50 for stationery 
and 10 cents a mile for the actual dis- 
tance from their homes to the state 
capital. The districts represented in 
the present general assembly were 
organized in 1881 by the republicans. 
The senate of 1893 consists of 29 demo- 
crats and 22 republicans. 



THE OFFICERS. 

Next to the President of the Senate 
the most influential officer is the Sec- 
retary. Indeed, he is often charged 
with passing or killing more bills than 
the senators. The present secretary, 
however, is above reproach, and never 
hastens or delays a roll call to permit 
the lobby to work, or stragglers sent 
for. This was almost a rule in the past. 



Downing, Finis E., (dem.), Virginia; 
editor-lawyer. Secretary' of the Sen- 
ate. Born in Virginia, Aug. 24, 1846, 
and received a common school edu- 
cation. He left the farm when 16 
and clerked in a dry goods store, after- 
wards going into the same line of 
trade for himself. In '69 he went to 




SKCKETAKY DOWNING 

Butler, Mo., engaging in the grocery 
and dry goods business, in which he 
continued until '75. Then he returned 
to Cass county and was elected circuit 
clerk in '80, was re-elected in '84 and 
again in '88, his last term expiring last 
December. He was chosen secretary 
of the senate by the democratic caucus, 
and fills the place although the duties 
are entirely new, to the satisfaction of 
every senator. Is naarried. In Sept. 
'91 he bought The Virginia Enquirer, 
which is edited in his absence by his 
son, Harry F. 

Davis, Robert H., Sergeant-at-Arms 
of the senate, lives in Harrollton, and 
was born in Mercer Co., Ky., about 55 
years ago. In '32 his father moved to 
Greene Co., 111., where he was a prac- 
ticing ph3'sician, and very successful. 
Robert was educated in the district 
schools, and finished at Center College, 
Danville, Ky. He was salesman in a 
wholesale drj' goods store in St. Louis 
for a time, and afterwards in a whole- 
sale grocery and commission house. 
In '70 he went into the business of buy- 
ing grain, selling- flour and coal in 
Carrollton, and continued it until 
elected sergeant-at-arms. He was vice- 
president of the Mercantile Library, 
St. Louis, for two years and a director 
for four years; is a life member now; 
was a member of the board of educa- 



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LEGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 



tion of CarroUton for twelve succes- 
sive years, and was president of the 
board for six years. He was elected 
to the senate in '85 to succeed F. M. 
-Bridges, deceased, and was returned 




SEKGEANT-AT-AKMS DAVIS. 

to the house in '86 and '88. He was 
chosen seargeant-at-arnis by acclama- 
tion in the democratic caucus. 

Allen, Sylvester, (dem.), Oxville, 
Scott Co.; farmer and merchant. Born 
in Jackson Co., O., Sept. 2, 1847, and 
received a common school edtication. 
He volunteered in the 7th Ohio cavalry 
and was rejected on account of his 
youth, but he was determined to g-o to 
the war, and was finally accepted as a 
teamster. After the war he settled in 




SYLVESTER ALLEN. 



Scott Co., 111., on a farm near Oxville. 
Is married. He held the office of jus- 
tice of the peace several times, and 
was postmaster of Oxville under Pres- 



ident Cleveland. He was elected to 
the house in '88 and to the senate in 
'90, receiving 6,132 votes to 2,285 for 
B. B. Hamilton, rep., and 1,574 for R. 
T. Brock, bolting rep. In the house 
he took an active and honest interest 
in farmer legislation, and the record 
was continued in the senate in '91, 
when he was recognized as the cham- 
pion of the interests of the agricultur- 
ists. Is a valuable member of the, 
present senate. As a member of the 
faithful "101" in the last legislature 
Senator Allen was faithful and stead- 
fast, regarding the voice of the people 
as a peremptory command. 

Committees: Senatorial apportionment 
(chairman;, visit charitable institutions 
(chairii)an), railroads, revenue, municipali- 
ties, charitable institutions, roads and 
bridges, military, building and loan associa- 
tions, waterways and drainage, agriculture. 

Anderson, Perry, (rep.), Alexis; lum- 
ber merchant. Born in Nasum Socken, 




PERRY ANDERSON. 

Christianstads Lan, Sweden, Oct. 5, 
1853, and at the age of 19 determined 
to come to America. He did so, set- 
tling in Warren county and hiring out 
as a farm hand. His education in the 
English language was acquired in the 
high school of Alexis, and his com- 
mercial training at Davenport Busi- 
ness College. He rented a farm and 
followed agriculture for a time, but in 
'81 he engaged in the lumber business, 
and in that has been successful. In 
'92 he was instrumental in organizing 
the Alexis Stoneware Manufacturing 
Co., and is now serving as president 
of that enterprise. He has received 
many favors regardless of party; has 
been on the board of education many 
years, and is still a member; was on 
the board of village trustees and was 



IvKCISI.ATIVK SOUVENIR. 



19 



president of the board, resij^ning-when 
he was elected to the senate in '90. Is 
married. Is chairman of the present 
republican senate caucus. 

C'omniittees: .ludicial department, ware- 
houses, finance and elainis, appropriations, 
inuniciiialit ics, charitable institutions, penal 
and rcfiirniatory , world's tair, congressional 
apportionTueiit, labor and manufactures. 

Arnold, John W., (deni.), Lockport; 
merchant. Born on a farm in Wash- 
ing-ton coutity, New York, Feb. 14, 
1852, and came to Illinois with his 
parents in 1855. Enlisted in the 4th 
111. Cav. under Col. Dickey, Sept. 16, 
'61; was discharged for disability in 
'62, re-enlisted in the Chicag-o Mercan- 
tile Battery, and was finally mustered 
out June 16, '65; was for 14 months a 
prisoner of war in Texas. After the 
war he eng-ag^ed in business in Lock- 
port. Was postmaster during- the lat- 




JOHN W. ARNOLD. 

ter part of Cleveland's term. Is mar- 
ried. His popularity is evidenced from 
the votes he received for senator in '90, 
carrj^ng Will county (the district) by 
172, while his predecessor, a republi- 
can, was elected by a majority of 1,250, 
and in '92 Harrison carried it by 400. 
In the senate he is a hard worker and 
closely watches all measures. 

Committees: Military (chairman), water- 
ways and drainage (chairman), warehouses, 
revenue, municipalities, corporations, penal 
and reformatoiy, senatorial apportionment, 
world's fair, canals and rivers, agriculture, 
mines and mining, labor and manufactures. 

Aspinwall, Homer F., (rep.). Free- 
port; farmer. Born in Stephenson 
county, Nov. 15, 1846, and was edu- 
cated in the common schools, graduat- 
ing from the Freeport high school. 
Then he clerked for two years in a 
wholesale notion store. Afterwards 
he began farming-, and now owns 265 



acres of land and is married. lias 
been on the board of supervisors for 
four years and held minor offices. Ho 
is a g-ood specimen of a successful 
Illinois agriculturist, and takes g-reat 




HOMER F. ASPINWALL. 

interest in matters that affect his con- 
stituents. Was elected in '92, receiv- 
ing- 8,748 votes to 7,905 for William 
Stewart, dem. 

Committees: Elections, insurance, judicial 
department, agriculture, wareliouses, reve- 
nue, penal and reformatory, state librarv, 
world's fair, senatorial appi">rtionment. 

Bacon, George E., (rep.), Paris; law- 
yer. Born on a farm near Madison. 
Ind., Feb. 4, 1851, and in '54 his par- 
ents moved to Coles Co., 111., and in '76 
he moved to Paris. His education was 




GEORGE E. BACON. 



finished at Northwestern University', 
Indianapolis, and the Union Lta.w 
School, Chicago; was admitted in '79 
at Ottawa. In a bar that possesses 



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I.EGISI<ATIVE SOUVENIR. 



many great minds he has been as suc- 
cessful as any. Is married and has 
three children. Was elected to the 
senate in '86, and again in '90; was 
chairman of the republican caucus in 
'89. In '91 he refused to vote for any 
but a republican for U. S. senator — a 
position endorsed by the best element 











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CHAKLKS N. BARNES. 

of his party. He is a man of fine 
physique, with a clear voice, and is 
one of the most effective and pleasing 
orators in the senate. His eulogy of 
Gen. IvOgan in '87 is referred to by 
those who heard it as an eloquent trib- 
ute, yet it was little better than his 
remarks on the death of Mr. Blaine 
and his old friend and colleague, Sen- 
ator Matthews, during- the present ses- 
sion. Few lawyers in Illinois, and 
probably none in the senate are the 
equals of Senator Bacon as a platform 
orator, a jury pleader or a lecturer. 
His services are in demand from all 
quarters of the state. 

Committees; Judiciary, agriculture, edu- 
cation, elections, railroads, insurance, con- 
gressional apportionment, license and mis- 
cellany, labor and manufactures. 

Barnes, Charles N., (dem.), Ivacon; 
lawyer. Born in Marshall county, 
March 25, 1860, and was educated in 
the Washburn high school, at Iowa 
City College and the Chicag-o Ivaw 
School; admitted to practice in '84. 
He has had a very successful run of 
cases ever since; was manager for the 
Springer Ivand Irrigating company in 
New Mexico for a time. He is married 
and owns 380 acres of land. He has 
represented his township three times 
on the county board, was states attor- 
ney of Marshall county for two years, 
and held various minor offices. He 



was elected to the senate in '92 by a 
vote of 8,039 to 6,325 for Iv. C. McMur- 
trie, rep. His colleagues in the senate 
have honored him with committee 
places far above those usually g^iven a 
new member. 

Committees: Canals and rivers (chairman), 
to visit penal and reformatory institutions 
(chairman), judiciary, judicial department, 
railroads, building and loan associations, 
world's fair, penal and reformatory, water- 
ways and drainage, expenses of the general 
assembly, senatorial apportionment. 

Bartling, Henry C, (dem.), Chicago; 
commission merchant and wholesale 
book dealer. Born in Springfield, 111., 
July 4, 1867, and moved with his par- 
ents to Chicago in '70. He was edu- 
cated in the IvUtheran parochial 
schools. He was ledg-erman at Mar- 
shall Field's for some time; has been 
in the commission business (grain and 
produce) for four years, and at the 
same time handles church and school 
books — books of the Ivutheran chiirch 
and the public schools. He is not mar- 
ried. He was elected supervisor for 
the North Town in '91, being second 
on the ticket, although the district is 
safely republican. He was a delegate 
to the last state convention and mem- 
ber of the committee on resolutions. 
He is very popular in his own district; 
elected in '92 by a vote of 20,801 to 
17,181 for J. H. Muhlke, rep. The dis- 
trict was overwhelmingly republican 




in '88. Senator Bartling is one of the 
youngest members of the legislature, 
and is honored with good committees. 
Committees: License and miscellany 
(chairman), municipalities, public biiild- 
ings, education, fees and salaries, printing, 
elections, building and loan associations, 
world's fair, waterways and drainage, con- 
gressional apportionment, canals and rivers. 



IvEGISI.ATIVK SOUVENIK. 



21 



Bass, George, (rep.), Chicag-o; law- 
yer. Born ill Williainstown, Vt., Dec. 
10, 1847, and moved to Chicago in '60. 
He was educated in the public schools 
and graduated at Harvard in '71. 
Holds a high place as a member of the 
Chicago bar, served as South Town 
collector in '90; was a republican pres- 




GEOKGK BAIS.S. 

idential elector in '80, and was elected 
to the senate in the fall of '90 by a 
vote of 4,464 to 4,225 for Lawrence P. 
Boyle, dem. Is not married. He takes 
little interest in the lower strata of 
politics, and yet is reg'arded by all ele 
ments as a safe leader in a campaign 

Connnittees: Judiciary, warehouses, seiia 
torial apportionment, tinance and claUiis 
munieipalities, insurance, building and loan 
associations, corporations, world's fair, con 
gressional apportionment, lici'nse and mis 
cellany. 

Berry, Orville F., (rep.), Carthage; 
lawyer. Born in McDonoug-h county, 
Feb. 16, 1852, and was early left an 
orphan. He received a common school 
education, and at 16 beg"an life's bat- 
tle for himself, and after working- as a 
farm hand and running- a farm, he 
removed to Carthage, where he read 
law; admitted to the bar in '77. In '79 
formed a partnership with his brother 
M. P., and they have had a very suc- 
cessful practice ever since. In '83 he 
was elected mayor of Carthag-e and 
was twice re-elected without opposi- 
tion. He was secretary of the Han- 
cock county agricultural board for 
four years, and acted as superinten- 
dent one year. He has been grand 
master workman of the A. O. U. W. of 
Illinois, and has been supreme repre- 
sentative from Illinois at several ses- 
sions of the supreme lodge. From the 



supreme lodge he has been delegate to 
fraternal cong-resses. He is also a 
Modern Woodman and a Royal Arch 
Mason. Is married. Was elected to 
the senate in '88, and ag-ain in '92, 
running ahead of his ticket both times; 
in '92 he received 7,260 votes to 7,016 
for Edward L. Wolf, dem. In the leg- 
islature of '91 he strong-ly advocated 
compulsory edttcation and the reten- 
tion of the compulsory teaching- of 
Eng-lish in all the schools of the state, 
and a vindictive fig-ht was made on 
him at the polls last year in conse- 
quence. 

Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
ment, railroads, corporations, charitable in- 
stitutions, education, elections, senatorial 
apportionment, world's fair, canals and 
rivers. 

Bogardus, Charles, (rep.) Paxton; 
farmer and stock raiser. Born in 
Cayuga Co., N. Y., March 28, 1841, and 
left an orphan at 6 years old. He had 
to carve out his own future, succeed- 
ing- as the record shows. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools and be- 
g-an working- in a store at 12 years of 
ag-e. In '62 he enlisted in the I51st N. 
Y. Inf.; was elected first lieutenant, 
and came out of the service as a lieu- 
tenant-colonel, brevetted colonel "for 
gallant and meritorious services before 
Petersburg." He came to Illinois in 
'72 and has since resided in Ford 
county, dealing in lands and operat- 




OKVILLK F. BERKY. 

ing many splendid farms and raising- 
fine stock. Is married. He was a 
member of Gov. Oglesby's and subse- 
quently Gov. Fifer's military staff, 
with the rank of colonel. He declined 
to give the number of acres of land he 
owns, but his Illinois holdings are not 
far from 5,000 acres, as learned from 



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I^EGISIvATlVE SOUVENIR. 



other sources. Was elected to the 
house in '84 and '86, and to the senate 
in '88 and '92. He is a man of g-reat 
force of character, indomitable energ-y 
and quick business instinct, and no 




CHAKLKS BOGARDUS 

man in the general assembly is mora 
popular or influential. He was chair- 
man of the republican caucus in '87, 
and chairman of the committee to 
make up the republican membership of 
the senate committees in '89 and '93. 

Committees: Revenue, penal and reforma- 
tory, military, roads and bridges, senatorial 
apportionment, building and loan associa- 
tions, world's fair, congressional apportion- 
ment, agriculture. 

Brands, Albert L., (dem.), Prai- 
rie du Rocher; physician. Born on 




ALBEHT L. BRANDS . 



a farm in St. Genevieve Co., Mo., 
April 26, 1856. He received a common 
school education, followed by a term 
at DeSoto academy, Missouri. His 



medical education was obtained at the 
Missouri Medical colleg-e in St. lyouis, 
g-raduating in '80, and moved the same 
year to Ivy I^anding, Monroe, Co., 
111., and thence to his present home in 
Sept. '81. Is married. He has never 
held office before, and was elected in 
'92 to the state senate over James Bos- 
ton, rep., by a majority of 850. He is 
consistent in his opposition to any leg-- 
islation that will be likely to foster 
trusts or monopolies, and is a farmer 
champion. 

Committees: Expenses of the general as- 
sembly (chairman), library, building and 
loan associations, canals and rivers, mines 
and mining, county and township organiza- 
tion, senatorial apportionment, roads and 
bridges, charitable institutions, appropria- 
tions, education, military, penal and re- 
formatory. 

Caldwell, Ben F., (dem.), Chatham; 
farmer and banker. Born near Car- 




BEN. F. CALDWELL. 

ronton. 111., Aug. 2, 1848, moving with 
his father to Sang^amon county in 'S3. 
Most of his youth was spent on a farm; 
was educated in the Chatham schools. 
After his marriage he made a tour of 
Europe. He is a Past Master in Ma- 
sonry, and has taken the 32d degree; is 
an Elk and a Past Noble Grand in the 
Odd Fellows. He was a member of 
the house in '83 and '85, and accom- 
plished more for his constituents than 
any representative the capitol district 
ever had in the legislature. He has 
served two terms as member and one 
as chairman of the county board of 
supervisors. He is one of the wealth- 
iest members of the leg-islature and is 
in politics for recreation and to do 
g'ood. He is a very industrious and 
influential member. His farming- in- 
terests are very large. Is president of 



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the Farmers' National bank of this 
city, of the Bank of Virden, and the 
Bank of Chathtini. During the session 
of '91 he introduced and successfully 
advocated the bill rediicinj,'- the rate of 
interest from 8 to 7 per cent., notwith- 
standin<^ he is a banker and capitalist. 
His popularity is attested by the fact 




JAMES K. CAMPBELL. 

that he ran away ahead of his ticket 
in '90, having- been elected senator 
over P. H. Donnelly, rep. by 7,106 to 
5,340 — the district being- democratic by 
about 900. 

( "omniitti'i's: IJanks and banking (chair- 
man), railroads, finance and claims, reve- 
nue, insurance, corporations, public build- 
ings, printing, roads and bridges, senatorial 
apportionment, state library, agriculture, 
mines and mining. 

Campbell, James R., (dem.), Mc- 
Leansboro; editor-lawj'er. Born in 
Crook township, Hamilton Co., May 4, 
1853. His ancestors emig-rated from 
County Armag-h, Ireland, and Crook 
township was named after his great- 
g-randfather. He was reared on a 
farm, educated at Notre Dame, and 
taught school after completing his ed- 
ucation. In the meantime he read law 
and was admitted to the bar in '77. 
In '78 he purchased The McLeansboro 
Times, the only democratic paper in 
the countj', and has since edited it, be- 
sides being- an extensive breeder of 
Percheron horses and a large land 
owner. He was elected to the house in 
'84 and '86, and advanced to the senate 
by a constituency that appreciated his 
work, in '88, and again in '92. In '85 
he rendered valuable assistance to 
Speaker Haines in selecting- the house 
committees. In the senate in '91 he 
introduced and secured the passage of 
a bill reducing- one-third the maximum 



price on public printing, and making- 
it impossible for a combination to con- 
trol the bidding- on state contracts. 
He has been energ-etic this year in an 
endeavor to carry out the pledges of 
the democratic platform in reg-ard to 
covering- the interest on state monies 
into the treasur3'. 

<'ominittees: Printing (cliairman) , fed- 
eral relations (chairman), judiciary, rail- 
roads, revenue, insurance, charitable insti- 
tutions, education, senatorial apportion- 
ment, agriculture, license and miscellany, 
county and township organization. 

Chapman, Pleasant T., (rep.), Vi- 
enna: lawyer and banker, was born in 
Johnson county on a farm Oct. 8, 1854, 
where he lived until he was 19 years 
old. He g-raduated from McKendree 
college in '76, and was admitted to the 
bar at Mt. Vernon in '78. In '77 he 
was elected stiperintendent of Johnson 
county's schools, and reappointed for 
a short term in '81; next year was 
chosen county judg-e, and ag-ain in '86, 
his term expiritig'- Dec. 1, '90. In Nov. 
'90, he was elected to the senate, re- 
ceiving- 6,622 votes to 6,048 for C. M. 
Farris, dem. He is married and is 
larg-ely interested in real estate and 
farms, besides being- president of the 
First National bank of Vienna. He 
latight school during- vacations while 
attending- college and for two years- 
afterwards, and has been eng-ag-ed in. 




PLEAS T. CHAPMAN. 

banking-, the law, mercantile business 
and farming- for the past twelve j^ears 
in Johnson county, meantime mixing- 
in politics to some extent as the above 
proves. 

Committees: Judiciary, railroads, reve- 
nue, insurance, banks and banking, public 
buildings, roads and bridges, federal rela- 
tions, senatorial apportionment. 



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Coon, Reuben W., (rep.), Waukeg-an; 
editor and publisher. Born May 31, 
1842 at Frankfort, Clinton Co., Ind. 
In '48 his father, who was a ininister, 
moved to Peoria Co., 111., where he re- 
mained until '55, when he moved to 
Alton, and here Senator Coon received 
his education at ShurtlefF Colleg-e. He 
lived in Pana from '61 to '70, and in 
'69 was assistant secretary of the state 
senate. While in Pana he practiced 
law, and had one-half interest in The 
Gazette. In '70 he moved to Belvidere 
and bought The Belvidere Northwest- 
ern, which he owned and made very 
influential until '85 when he sold it and 
bought The Waukegan Gazette, one of 
the best country papers in the state, 
and one of the most powerful republi- 
can organs in Northern Illinois. He 
was' states attorney of Boone county 
from '80 to '84, and was elected to the 




KKUiSEN-W. COON. 

senate in '92 by a vote of 8,143 to 4,764 
for Charles N. Smith, dem. He has 
always been a republican and active in 
all campaigns. 

Committees: Judiciary, appropriations, 
municipalities, banks and banking, printing, 
senatorial apportionment, building and loan 
associations, worlds fair, revenue, enrolled 
and engrossed bills, joint committee on en- 
rolled and engrossed bills. 

Coppinger, John W., (dem.), Alton; 
stone contractor. Born in Alton Jan. 
12, 1852, and was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Alton, St. Mary's College, 
Perry ville. Mo., and at Notre Dame. 
He read law and was admitted to the 
bar in '72. He has been mayor of 
Alton. Is married. He is popular 
with his colleagues and has a very 
extensive and valuable acquaintance 
throughout the state. He was elected 
to the house in '86, and to the senate 



in '90. In the session of '91 he intro- 
duced a bill and was largely instru- 
mental in securing its enactment re- 
pealing "the Merritt Conspiracy Act." 
He was chosen president pro tem of the 




JOHN W. COPPINGER. 

senate this year by the unanimous 
voice of the democratic caucus, and 
while Lieut. Gov. Gill was acting 
governor, filled the chair in the senate 
with dignity and satisfaction. 

Committees: Mines and mining (cliair- 
maii), rules, judicial department, railroads, 
municipalities, military, elections, congres- 
sional apportionment, canals and rivers, 
labor and manufactures. 

Craig, Isaac B., (dem.), Mattoon; 
lawyer. Born in Coles county April 
28, 1857. He was educated in the pub- 




lic schools and at Ann Arbor. He has 
been a very successful practitioner at 
Mattoon for twelve years. He has 
j.lways taken great interest in politics, 



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and has filled various local offices. He 
was elected to the house in '88, and 
ag"ain in '90, and jjronioted to the sen- 
ate in '92, running- ahead of his ticket, 
the district beinj;- republican on the 
head of the ticket. Is married. Was 
chairman of the caucus, and appointed 
the steering committee of democrats 
that manag-ed the Palmer contest for 
United States senator in '91. He is a 
•member of the same committee in the 
senate this year, and is one of the 
democratic leaders on the floor. Mr. 
Craig is an earnest and effective orator, 
and one of the best members of the 
senate. 

Committees: Corporations (chairman), ju- 
diciary, judicial department, revenue, ap- 
propriations, insurance, senatorial appor- 
tionment, building and loan associations, 
state library-arts and sciences, county and 
township orjjanization. 

Crawford, William F., (rep.), Taylor 
Ridge, Rock Island Co.; farmer. Born 
in Clark Co., Ind., July 7, 1835, and 
moved to Rock Island county with his 
parents in '42. His father died when 
he was 8 years old, and he went out to 
work on a farm, receiving only $6 a 
month. He continued this until he 
was 18, when he was able to make a 
full hand. During this time he at- 
tended the district schools as best he 
could. He is married and is a success- 
ful farmer, owning 320 acres of splen- 
did land which he accumulated b}' his 




WILLlAiM ¥. C'KA\VFUUL>. 

own industry. He has held various 
local offices of minor importance, and 
vi^as elected to the house in '86 and '88, 
and promoted to the senate in '90, re- 
ceiving 7,720 votes to 6,309 for R. H. 
Hinman, dem. He enlisted in the 
army in Aug. '61 in the 9th 111. Cav., 
and served over three years. He par- 



ticipated in the battle of Tupelo and 

saw a great deal of hard service. He 

is a strong representative of the far- 
mers' interests in the legislature. 

Committees: Expenses of the general as- 
semby, corporations, charitable institutions, 
public buildings, roads and bridges, federal 
relations, canals and rivers, agriculture, 
mines and mining, county and township 
organization. 




HENRY M. DUNLAP. 

Dunlap, Henry fl., (rep.), Savoy; 
farmer and fruit grower, was born in 
Cook county, Nov. 14, 1853, and four 
years later his parents moved to Savoy, 
where he has lived ever since. He 
was educated in the University of Illi- 
nois at Urbana, graduating in the 
class of '75 in the scientific course. Is 
married and owns 320 acres of land, 
200 of which are in bearing apple 
orchards. Represented for six years 
Champaign township on the county 
board, has been president of the State 
Horticultural society, and is a K. P. in 
good standing. He takes great inter- 
est in all matters pertaining to agri- 
culture and horticultvxre. 

Committees: Appropriations, revenue, ag- 
riculture, roads and bridges, county and 
township organization, banks and banking, 
waterways and drainage, penal and reform- 
atory, fees and salaries, building and loan 
associations. 

Evans, Henry H., (rep.), Aurora; 
real estate capitalist. The oldest mem- 
bsr of the legislature in consecutive 
service. Born in Toronto, Canada. 
March 9, 1836, and moved to Aurora in 
'41. Mr. Evans' father was for ten 
years foreman of the car building 
shops of the Burlington system Is 
married. Was elected to the house in 
'76 and to the senate in '80, '84, '88, '92, 
the last time by a vote of 10,278 to 7,929 
for Chester D. Bartlett, dem. Was the 



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I^EGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 



republican nominee for president pro- 
tena, is by virtue of it the leader of his 
party, and as such was conceded a 
chairmanship with clerk and room 
where his party colleagues can retire 
for consultation. Is financially inter- 
ested in real estate and corporate prop- 
erty to a larg-e extent. He is one of 
the most influential members, and is 
reg-arded as a man of ability. Opposed 
the election of Streeter to the U. S. 
senate in '91 by the republicans and 
refused to vote for him, although will- 
ing- to abide by caucus action if a 
straig-ht-out republican was selected. 
His constituents endorsed his position 
by retitrning- him to the senate in '92 
by an increased majority. 

Committees: State library-arts and scien 
ces (chairman), railroads, revenue, insur 
ance, corporations, banks and banking- 
printing, military, building- and loan associ 
atlons, agriculture, license and miscellany 




HKNKY H. EVANS. 

Farmer, William M., (dem.), Van- 
dalia; lawyer. Born in Fayette county, 
June 5, 1853; lived on a farm and at- 
tended district school until he was 18 
years old, when he entered McKendree 
college. Then he taught school and 
began reading law in the office of 
Henry & Fouke in Vandalia. In '75 
he entered the Union College of I^aw 
in Chicago in the junior class and 
graduated next year. He was imme- 
diately admitted to the bar and began 
active work as a lawyer in Vandalia, 
where he has met with almost pheno- 
menal success. For ten years he has 
been senior member of the firin Farmer 
& Brown. In '80 was elected states 
attorney, and in '88 to the house, his 
constituents promoting him to the sen- 
ate in '90, although his district was the 



hotbed of the F. M. B. A. movement in 
that year, and a' tremendous effort was 
made to defeat him. He is deservedly 
popular and is one of the leaders in the 
senate. His tastes run in the way of 




WILLIAM M. FAKMER. 

judicial honors rather than political 
office. 

Committees: Judiciary (chairman), judi- 
cial department, expenses of general assem- 
bly, banks and banking, building and loan 
associations, state library, agriculture, con- 
gressional apportionment, world's fair. ..^ I 

Ferguson, Virgil S., (rep.), Sterling; 
lawyer. Born in Lawrence Co., Ind., 
Sept. 18, 1844. Five years later his 
father, who was a descendent of one 
of five brothers who emigrated from 
Scotland before the revolutionary war. 




VIKGIL S. FERGUSON. 



located in Whiteside county, and en- 
gaged in farming on a large scale. 
Senator Ferguson attended the public 
schools and graduated from the law 



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27 



department of the University of Chi- 
cago in '68; was admitted to the bar 
the same year, and has since been 
in successful practice in Sterling-. Is 
married. He is a strong- advocate 
of compulsory education, and just 
as strong-ly in favor of the teaching- of 
English in all the schools. He served 
on the board of supervisors for ten 
years or more; is now and has been 
for fifteen years on the board of edu- 
cation; was elected to the senate in '90 
by a vote of 5,711 to 4,449 for J. M. 
Eaton, dem. He never missed a roll 
call for II. S. senator in '91, although 
so ill part of the time that his life was 
despaired of by his friends and physi- 
cians. He is a g-ood representative, 
faithful and prompt in his attendance. 

Committees: Judichiry, judicial depart- 
ment, appropriations, penal and reforma- 
tory, education, world's fair, congressional 
apportionment, canals and rivers, mines 
and minintf. 

Ford, Thomas E., (dem.), Carlyle; 
lawyer. Born on a farm in Clinton 
county, May 24, 1848. His father was 
a member of the assembly of '63 — a 
democrat, of course. From a news- 
paper in his district it is learned that 
Senator Ford's history is that of one 
of the most remarkable men in Illinois, 
illustrating- the wonderfvil qualities of 
pioneer manhood. Born and reared on 
a farm, with most meag-er opportuni- 
ties for learning, he somehow con- 




THOMAS E. FORU. 

trived to acquire a fair editcation. As 
a youth he was a leader in local debat- 
ing societies, which led to an extensive 
practice before justices of the peace of 
the vicinity, and afterwards to a large 
law practice; admitted to the bar in 
'79. He has begn active in politics 



since '74, aud has held various local 
offices. Is married. Was elected to 
the senate in '92 over J. H. Fricke, 
rep., by a vote of 5,711 to 4,877. 

Committees: Education (chairman) , judi- 
ciary, judicial department, railroads, finance 
and claims, revenue, puljlic buildings, fees- 
and salaries, pi inting, military , building and 
loan associations, world's "fair, congres- 
sional apportionment, agriculture. 




KEED GREEN. 

Green, Reed, (dem.), Cairo; lawyer. 
Born in Mt. Vernon, 111., Sept." 22, 
1865, and educated in the Southern 
Illinois Normal University'. On com- 
pleting his education he taug-ht school 
for two years in Cairo. He attended 
the Wesley an I^aw School at Bloom- 
ington, g-raduating in '84, was admit- 
ted to the bar the same year, and has. 
])racticed since he was 21 years old, 
meeting- with decided success. He is 
at present a member of the law firm of 
Green & Gilbert, of Cairo, one of the 
oldest and most famous in all "Eg-ypt."^ 
He was elected to the house in '88, re- 
turned in '90, and advanced to the sen- 
ate with no effort on his own part to 
secure the nomination in '92, receiving- 
7,205 votes to 6,465 for J. E. N. Ed- 
wards, rep. He was chairman of the 
house committee on elections in '91, 
and practically drafted the present 
Australian electioti law. He is one of 
the most eloquent and forcible speak- 
ers in the leg-islature, and a leader on 
the floor. Is not married. Senator 
Green made an exceptionally brilliant 
record while in the house in '89-'91. 

Committees: Roads, highways and bridges- 
(chairman) ; visit educational institvitions 
(chairman), judiciary, railroads, municipali- 
ties, insurance, education, elections, build- 
ing and loan associations, congressional ap- 
portionment, labor, license, county and 
township organization- 



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IvEGISLATlVE SOUVENIR. 



Hamer, Thomas, (rep.), Vermont; re- 
tired merchant. The oldest member 
of the general assembly. Was born in 
Union Co., Penn., June 1, 1818, and in 
'46 he moved to Illinois and established 
himself in business in Vermont. Re- 
ceived a common school education. Is 
married. In August, '62, he assisted 
in recruiting- the 84th Illinois regiment, 
and was made lieutenant-colonel. He 
^wa.s wounded in the left breast and 
shoulder at Stone River, but the 
w^otxnds healing over, he continued in 
active service tintil they broke out and 
incapacitated him for further service. 
He returned home and resumed busi- 
ness until '78, when he retired. He 
w^as offered the place of post com- 
mander at Franklin, Tenn., but he de- 
clined, preferring home to anything 
but service in the field. He was elect- 
■ed to the house in '86 and to the senate 




THOMAS HAMER. 

in '88 and '92, the last time receiving 
10,704 votes to 8,298 for Levi K. Byers, 
■dem. He is highly respected by his 
-colleagues-. 

Committees: Charitable institutions, pub- 
lic buildings and grounds, military, visit 
charitable institutions, waterways and 
drainage, congressional apportionment, 
•canals and rivers, mines and mining, labor 
and manufactures. 

Higbee, Harry, (dem.), Pittsfield; 
lawyer. Born in Pittsfield Dec. 13, 
1854, the son of the late Judge Chaun- 
•cey Lr. Higbee. Finished his educa- 
tion at Yale, entering in '71 and grad- 
uating in '75, and completed his law 
studies at the Columbia I^aw School, 
New York, and the Union College of 
Ivaw, Chicago, from which he gradu- 
ated in '78. He then traveled in Fu- 
Tope for nine months accompanied by 
Congress-man Scott Wike, and on re- 



turning formed a law partnership with 
Mr. Wike, which still exists. Was 
married in '79, and lost his wife in '81. 
Has held various local offices, and was 
elected to the senate in '88 and again 




HAEliT HIGBEE. 

in '92, running ahead of his ticket 
each time. He is largely interested in 
farm lands. Is chairman of the demo- 
cratic senate caucus, and the leader of 
his party on the floor. Is strong in 
debate, an indefatigable worker, a 
good parliamentarian and very popu- 
lar with political friend and foe. 

Committees: Appropriations (chairnaan), 
judiciary, banks and banking, fees and sal- 
aries, state library, world's fair, congres- 
sional apportionment, canals and rivers, 
agriculture. 




VINTON E. HOWELL. 



Howell, Vinton E., (rep.), Blooming- 
ton; farmer, was born in Licking Co., 
O., Nov. 30, 1840. and moved to Mc- 
Lean county in '52. He was educated 



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in the coniinon schools, with one term 
in the Normal college. When the war 
broke out he enlisted in Co. C, 33d 111. 
Inf., and served over three years. 
After the war he eng-ag-ed in farming 
and stock raising, in which he has 
been very successful. He was elected 
sheriff of McLean county in '86 for 
four years without opposition. He has 
been a member of the county board for 
five years, is married and owns consid- 
erable land. He was elected to the 
senate in '92 over his old neighbor, 
Hon. Simeon H. West, dem., bv a vote 
of 7,391 to 6,478. Senator Howell is a 
hard worker in the senate, and informs 
himself of the merits of every bill that 
conies up. 

Conuiiittecs: Revenue, municipalities, fees 
and suUirles, state institutions, roads and 
bridges, building and loan associations, 
visit penal and refortuatory institutions. 

Humphrey, John, (rep.), Orland; 
lawver. Born in the countv of Nor- 
folk, England, June 20, 1838," and was 
broug-ht to this countrj' b^^ his parents 
a lad of ten years. The family settled 
in Cook county, where he received a 
common school education. He read 
law in the office of Hon. James P. 
Root, and was admitted to the bar in 
'72. He has lived in Orland for many 
years, and practices his profession 
with an office in Chicago. Is married 
and owns 280 acres of land in Cook 
county. He has been treasurer of Or- 
land for twentj' years and supervisor 




JOHN HOMrHKEr. 

for twenty-four years. He was once a 
bailiff under Sheriff' Bradley. He was 
elected to the house in '70, also in '80, 
and again in '84, and was advanced to 
the senate in '86, and returned in '90 in 
the face of a determined opposition, b}' 
a vote of 8,772 to 7,939 for Louis Wag- 



ner, dem. Senator Humphrey's long 
service has not been without recogni- 
tion, for he is on the most desirable 
committees. He is one of the most in- 
fluential members. 

Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
ment, railroads, warchonscs, municipal- 
ities, senatorial api)i)rtii)nnicnt, w atciways 
and drainage, congressional ai)portionment, 
license and miscellany. 




DANIEL D. HUNT. 

Hunt, Daniel D., (rep.), DeKalbr 
farmer. Born Sept. 19, 1835, in Wy- 
oming Co., N. Y., and came to DeKalb 
county in '57. For the last twenty 
years he has been a successful farmer 
and has held various local offices, such 
as supervisor, school trustee, etc. He 
was educated in the public schools. Is 
married. Was elected to the house in 
'86 and '88, and to the senate in '90. 
In the last senate he was chairman of 
the committees on agriculture, horti- 
culture and farm drainage and live 
stock and dairying. He has at all 
times served his state and district 
creditably, and has introduced and se- 
cured the passage of numerous import- 
ant measures. Was the champion of 
the dairy interest in both house and 
senate. 

Committees: .Judicial department, insur- 
ance, corporations, fees and salaries, sena- 
torial apportionment, building and loan 
associations, world's fair, mines and mining, 
labor and manufactures, county and town- 
ship organization. 

Hunter, David, (rep.), Rockford; far- 
mer. Was born in Wyoming Co., N. 
Y., Jan. 15, 1836, and came to Illinois 
with his parents in '44. His father 
settled on a farm six miles from Rock- 
ford, which Mr. Hunter still occupies. 
He was for three years a private in Co. 
C. 15th 111. Inf., enlisting May 24, '61. 
He was educated in the common. 



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schools of pioneer Illinois; is married, 
and owns 160 acres of Winnebag'O 
■county land. He has held various 
minor offices, and has been continu- 
ously a member of the Illinois leg"isla- 
ture since '84, when he was elected to 
the house, and was returned in '86, '88, 
'90, and in '92 he was advanced to the 
senate. Senator Evans and Speaker 
Crafts are the only two members who 
have served longer continuously, while 
Senators Campbell, Bog-ardus and Ma- 
honey began in the house the same 
session as himself. He is one of the 
best members of the legislature, and 
is always present during sessions. 

Committees: Revenue, penal and reform- 
atory, municipalities, military, elections, 
agriculture, county and township organiza- 
tion, flnance and claims. 









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DAVID HDNTER. 

Johnson, C. Porter, (dem.), Chicago; 
lawyer. Born in Vermilion Co., 111., 
Aug\ 15, 1866. His path was not 
strewn with roses in early life, and 
every step on the ladder has been 
earned b}' hard work and close appli- 
cation. His ability as a lawyer and 
his usefulness as a legislator were not 
advertised in advance of his time. 
This is his first public office, and he is 
already recognized as one of the most 
fluent public speakers and the equal in 
debate bf any senator. He was educa- 
ted at Ivce's Academy in Coles county, 
and was admitted to the bar in '87, 
opening an office in Chicago the same 
year, and has a large and profitable 
practice. He was town attorney for 
the Town of I^ake in '90, and in '92 
was tendered the nomination for con- 
gress, but declined, and was elected 
senator from the Second district, 
"which gave an overwhelming republi- 



can majority for Harrison in '88, re- 
ceiving 28,326 votes to 27,367 for Perry 
A. Hull, rep. 

Committees: Enrolled and engrossed bills 
(chairman), elections (chairman), joint com- 




V. PORTEK JOHNSON. 

mittee on enrolled and engrossed bills 
(chairman), judiciary, railroads, revenue, 
municipalities, banks and banking, penal 
iind reformatory, visit charitable institu- 
tions, world's fair, congressional apportion- 
ment, agriculture. 

Knopf, Philip, (rep.), Chicago; real 
estate and loans. Born at Ivong 
Grove, Lake Co., 111., Nov. 18, 1847, 
and moved to Chicago in '66. He was 
educated in the public schools and at 
Bryant & Stratton's Business College, 
where he spent one year. Is married. 




PHILIP KNOPF. 



In the spring of '65 he enlisted in Co. 
I, 147th 111. Inf., when not quite 16 
years old. He was elected to the sen- 
ate in '86 and re-elected in '90 by a 



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31 



vote of 7,209 to 5,782 for Thomas J. 
Diven, deni. He was chief deputy cor- 
oner of Cook county for eig-ht years 
under Henry L. Hertz. Has taken 
prominent part in all leg-islation, par- 




AKTHDK A. LEEPER. 

ticularly as affecting- Cook county; he 
is always in attendance. 
P5C<)iiiinlttees: Judicial department, educa- 
tion, ralh-oads, municipalities, fees and sal- 
aries, military, federal relations, waterways 
and drainage, congressional apportionment, 
license and miscellany. 

Leeper, Arthur A., (dem.), Virg-inia; 
lawj'er. Born on a farm near Chand- 
lerville, Cass county, Aug. 21, 1855. 
He was educated in the common schools 
and at Eureka Colleg-e, and graduated 
from the law department of the State 




GEORGB R. I/ETODKNKAU. 

University at Iowa City in '75. Is 
married. Senator Leeper was states 
attorney of Cass county from '76 to 
'80, and was elected state senator in 



"88 for four years, and was re-elected 
in '92 by a vote of 7,998 to 5,979 for W. 
M. Grimwood, rep. The Senator is a 
man of firmness and recog^nized ability' 
as a lawyer and parliamentary tacti- 
cian. He stands high with his col- 
leag"ues in the senate, and was chosen 
chairman of the committee on rail- 
roads this session but declined. 

CouHiiittees: Railroads, judiciary, judicial 
department, corporations, insurance, rules, 
roads and bridges, canals and rivera, sena- 
torial apportionment. 

Letourneau, George R., (rep.), Kan- 
kakee; lumber and coal dealer, retired. 
Born in St. Thomas, Canada, Feb. 2S, 
1833, and in '47 came alone to Illinois. 
After remaining a 3'ear in Chicago, he 
caught the gold fever and struck across 
the plains for California. In '52 he re- 
turned and settled at Bourbonnais 
Grove, then in Will county, now in 




JOSEPH p. MAHONEY. 

Kankakee, where he remained until 
'83, when he moved to Kankakee. He 
received a g-ood common school educa- 
tion. He was elected circuit clerk in 
'72, sheriff in '82, and county treasurer 
in '86, and in '92 was elected senator, 
receiving- 7,387 votes to 6,672 for A. Iv. 
Grang-er, dem. Is married but lost his 
wife six years ag'-o. He has had twelve 
children and all are living. 

Committees: Railroads, appropriations, 
public buildings, canals and rivers, license 
and miscellany, mines and mining, labor and 
manufactures', printing, county and town- 
ship organization. 

riahoney, Joseph P., (dem.), Chicago; 
lawyer. Born in Osweg-o, N. Y., Nov. 
1, 1863, and moved to Chicag-o with his 
parents in '66. He was educated in 
the public schools and g-raduated at the 
West Side hig-h school. Then he read 
law in the office of Hon. John N. Jew- 



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IvEGISLATlVE SOUVENIR. 



ett, and was admitted to the bar in '84, 
and elected the same year to the house, 
being 21 years of age the Saturday pre- 
ceding election day. He was re-elected 
to the house in '86 and '88, and ad- 
vanced to the senate in '90 by a vote of 
7,946 to 3,707 for James Monahan, rep. 
He is one of the oldest members of the 
legislature in continuous service. Is 
not married. Senator Mahoney is one 
of the readiest debaters and best par- 
liamentarians in the state; quick in re- 
tort and apt in repartee. He was ap- 
pointed to the board of education in 
Chicago last year by Mayor Wash- 
burn, but resigned. He has an exten- 
sive law practice and is very success- 
ful in his profession. 

Committees : Penal and reformatory (chair- 
man) , jvidiciary, warehouses, appropria- 
tions, municipalities, insurance, corpora- 
tions, banks and banking, education, elec- 
tions, senatorial apportionment, world's 
fair, waterways and drainage, license and 
miscellany. 

rianecke, Harmon, (dem.), Oakley, 
Macon Co.; farmer. Born in Hancock 
Co., O., Dec. 16, 1850, and at 11 years 
of age was left an orphan. He worked 
on a farm and attended district school 
and the high school at Fostoria sev- 
eral terins. In '68 he moved to Macon 
county and worked as a farm hand un- 
til '72, when he commenced farming 
for himself. Was elected town clerk 
of Oakley in '74 and served three terms 
and has represented his township on 





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HARMON MANiSCKE. 

the board of supervisors for eleven 
terms. Is married. Was elected to 
the senate in '90 by a majority of over 
1,000, although the district was strongly 
republican, receiving 6,927 votes to 
5,902 for James Milliken, rep. In '72 
he became a democrat, when war taxes 



and protective tariffs were first dis- 
cussed since the war. There is no more 
conscientious nor industrious inember 
of the legislature. 

Committees: Agricvilture (chairman), ju- 
dicial department, appropriations, munici- 
palities, charitable institutions., railroads, 
roads and bridges, congressional apportion- 
ment, mines and mining, county and town- 
ship organization. 





WILLIAM A. MUSSETT. 

Mussett, William A., (rep.), Gray- 
ville; teacher. Born in Grayville Jan. 
2, 1865, and educated at the Danville 
(Ind.) Normal and the Indiana Univer- 
sity at Bloomington, graduating as 
the president of the class of '89, and 
was second in the oratorical contest of 
that year. Was superintendent of the 
Grayville schools from '89 to '92, and 
brought theiTL up to a high point of 
efficiency. Is not married. He has 
made a particularly good impression 
on the senators, and will ultimately 
make the law his profession. Was 
elected to the senate in '92, receiving 
6,964 votes to 6,198 for the old veteran 
politician and democratic war horse, 
James C. Allen — a decided compliment 
to Mr. Mussett's popularity and ability. 

Committees: Judicial department, ware- 
houses, expenses of general assembly, cor- 
porations, education, elections, senatorial 
apportionment, to visit educational institu- 
tions, state library. 

Niehaus, John fl., (dem.), Peoria; 
lawyer, was born in Warendorf , West- 
phalia, Feb. 15, 1855. The Senator's 
father, who was a hardware merchant 
in the old country, emigrated to 
America the same year and the fam- 
il3^ followed a year later, stopping first 
at Pittsburg for a year and then re- 
moving to Peoria, where the family 
has lived ever since. John M. was 



I.EOISLATIVK SOUVKNI K. 



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educated principally in i)rivate Ger- 
man schools, having- special instruc- 
tion in Latin and the classics; he also 
spent a term in a business collejjfe. 
graduatinj,'- in "71. Read law with 




.JOHN M. NIEHAUS. 

O'Brien & Harmon, was admitted to 
the bar in '74, and began practice in 
'77. Was elected to the house in '80 
and was chosen state's attorney' of 
Peoria county in '83 to fill an unex- 
pired term, being- re-elected in '84 and 
again in '88; elected senator in '92. 

Coniiiiittees : Congressional apportion- 
ment (ehairnian), judiciary, warehouses, 
revenue, municipalities, penal and reforma- 
tory, fees and salaries, building and loan as- 
sociations, world's fair, waterways and 
drainage, canals and rivers, agriculture. 




h:l>\\ AKI) T. NOONAN. 



Noonan, Edward T., (dem.), Chicago. 
Born in Macomb, 111., October 23, 1861. 
His father, an officer under Sherman, 
was killed in the battle of Atlanta. 



He moved to Chicago with his mother 
in '68, and now resides at 398 Washing- 
ton boulevard. Received the degree 
of L. L. B. from the University of 
Michigan, and read law with Judge 
Van H. Higgins, and Hon. C. C. Bon- 
ney. Was admitted to the bar in '82, 
and is now engaged in the practice of 
real estate and corporation law. Was 
appointed aid-de-camp, with rank as 
colonel, on the staff of Governor Alt- 
geld. Is president of the Building 
Society' Secretaries' Club, and is a 
member of the Iroquois, Ashland, 
White Chapel and Sheridan clubs of 
Chicago, and is not married. Was 
the first democratic senator ever elect- 
ed from his district and was one of the 
noble "101". 

Senator Noonan is a member of sev- 
eral important committees. 




ANDREW .1. O CONOK. 

O'Conor, Andrew J., (dem.), LaSalle; 
lawj'er. Born in LaSalle, Juh' 19, 
1852, and received his education in the 
schools of that city and at Niagara 
College. Taught school two years 
and read law at the same time; was 
admitted to practice in '76. He formed 
a law partnership with Hon. James W. 
Duncan, whose sister he married the 
same year. The partnership con- 
tinued until '86, when Mr. Duncan 
moved to Chicago. Mr. O'Conor has 
the faculty of attracting to him friends 
who are with him to the death. Has 
held minor offices at home, mayor, city 
attorney, school treasurer, etc., and 
when he entered the senate in '91 he 
assumed a commanding position as 
democratic leader. Senator O'Conor 
possesses the confidence of Governor 
Altgeld probably more than any other 
man outside the governor's family. 



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LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



and had a g^reat deal to do with shap- 
ing- the work of the last democratic 
state convention, and he could have 
had the nomination for attorney g^en- 
eral in '92 without asking- for it. 

Coimnittees: NA^orld's Columbian exposi- 
tion (chairman), labor and manufactures 
(chairman), iuclieiary, judicial department, 
appropriations, penal and reformatorj', 
education, federal relations, elections, con- 
gressional apportionment, canals and ri-vers, 
mines and mining. 

O'Malley, John F., (dera.), Chicago; 
clerk. Born in Chicago, April 12, 1860. 
Educated in Chicago's public schools. 
Began earning a living for himself in 
the coal yards of the north side, and 
afterwards entered into partnership in 
the sale of coal with Mr. MuUins. Is 
not married. Was elected supervisor 
for the North Town in '84, and was re- 
elected in '85. For several years he 
was clerk in the office of North Town 
Assessor Samuel B. Chase. He is a 
staunch deinocrat and never wavered 
in his fidelity to Gen. Palmer during 
the senatorial fight of '91. Was elected 
state senator in '90 over Michael F. 
Garrity, rep. by a vote of 5,218 to 3,035. 
Senator O'Malley is one of the best 
workers in the democratic party in 
Cook county, and is generally a winner 

Committees: Warehouses (chairman), ju- 
dicial department, expenses of the general 
assembly, corporations, charitable institu- 
tions, penal and reformatory, public build- 




JOHN F. O MALLEY. 

ings, federal relations, senatorial apportion- 
ment, world's fair, license and miscellany, 
labor and manufactures. 

Paisley, George W., (dem.), Hills- 

boro; farmer, coal operator and law- 
3'er, was born in Montgomery county, 
March 1, 1838, and was educated in the 
common schools and at Hillsboro 
Academy. Entered the army in '62 



and served three years in Co. I, 122d 
111. Inf., and on his return from the 
war was elected county surveyor. 
Then he studied law and was admitted 
in '70, and practiced for about six 
years, when he founded The Mont- 
gomery News, a democratic news- 
paper of wide influence. Was chosen 




GEORGE W. PAISLEY. 

inaster in chancery and served from 
'68 to '79. Was elected to the house in 
'80, and in '85 was appointed one of 
three inspectors of surveyors of the 
general and district land offices by 
President Cleveland, and resigned in 
May '89, after opening one of the land 
offices in Oklahoma. Is married. Is 
one of the best posted men in Illinois 
on revenue and taxation questions. Is 
a careful and indvtstrious member, of 
pronounced ability, arid was elected to 
the senate by a vote of 7,331 to 5,842 
for W. W. Weeden, rep. 

Committees: Rules (chairman), revenue 
(chairman), judiciary, appropriations, cor- 
porations, printing, visit educational insti- 
tutions, congressional appoi'tionment, mines 
and mining. 

Reavill, Andrew J., (dem.). Flat 
Rock, Crawford Co.; farmer and stock- 
man. Born Dec. 24, 1834, on the farm 
he now owns, one mile and one-half 
from Flat Rock. His father located 
there in '17, and nobody will dispute 
Senator Reavill's claim as a pioneer of 
the state. Senator Reavill's education 
was limited to the rudiments of learn- 
ing, taught in the district schools of 
that primitive time. Is married. Was 
a member of the house in '77 and '79, 
and chosen to represent his district in 
the senate in '86 and again in '90. The 
senator has been a life-long democrat, 
and enjoys the confidence of his con- 



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35 



stitueiits. Ho has accumulated a coiii- 
peteiicY by close application, uutirini^ 
iiulustrN' and shrewdness. Was one of 
the most important fig'ures and did not 
a little to insure the election of Gen. 




. KEAVII.L, 



Palmer to the senate in '91. He is a 
quiet, unostentatious, yet a very shrewd 
member. 

Coniuiittees : County and township organi- 
zation (cluiirnian), railroads, warehouses 
finance and claims, expenses of general as 
senibly, Insuranee, Ijanks and banlsing 
penal and reformatory, roails and bridges 
senatorial apportionnient, world's fair, ag 
riculture. 

Salomon, floses, (dem.), lawyer and 
manufacturer. Born in Peoria, Dec. 
13, 18,S7, and four years later his father 




MOSES SALOMON. 



moved to Chicago with his famil}'. 
Was educated in the common schools 
and at the Union College of Law in 
Chicago, after which he read law in 



Allen C. Story's office and was admit- 
ted to the bar in '80. Is not married. 
Is president of the Chicago Architec- 
tural Iron Works, one of the largest 
industries of its kind in the United 
Sates; 150 men are employed. Is in- 
terested in legislation that will pro- 
tect the people from the greed of mon- 
opolies and trusts, and advocates the 
opening of all markets to fair com- 
petition, and just and equal taxation. 
Senator Salomon is ver^' popular 
atnong his constituents, having been 
elected in '92 in a strong republican 
district, the first democrat to break 
the republican majority, receiving 
12,721 votes to 11,691 for Alexander 
White, rep. 

Committees: Insuranee (eliairman; , judi- 
ciary, railroads, corporations, pul)lie l)uild- 
ings, federal relations, congressional ai)por- 
tionment. li(H!nse and miscellany, labor and 
manufactures, municipalities, revenue. 




THOMAS U. SUEKIUAN. 

Sheridan, Thomas H., (rep.), Gol- 
conda; lawyer. Born in Pope county 
Dec. 16, 1860, and has had a hard row 
to hoe, but is now past the rockiest 
part of the journey of life. The sen- 
ator's father died when he was 6 years 
old, leaving a widow and six children, 
two girls and four boys. It is said that 
he was born in a cave, and Pope county 
has many of them, his father being too 
poor to build a log hut on their rocky 
tract of land. About the time of the 
father's death the mother with her de- 
pendent little ones moved to Golconda, 
and for several years she took in 
washing and supported them the best 
she could, taking care that they at- 
tended school. In '71 the yotingest 
son, then 9 years of age, was drowned, 
and in "76 the eldest, the then support 
of the family, met the same fate. The 



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I.EGISI.ATIVE SOUVENIR. 



same year the second oldest went to 
California, and Senator Sheridan, then 
16 years old, quit school and went to 
work in a spoke factory at $2 a week, 
and worked at that and in a brick yard 
and printing office until September, 
'79. The senator then received a teach- 
er's certificate, taug-ht school in the 
winter and ran a confectionery store 
in summer. Meantime he studied law, 
was admitted to practice in '83 and 
practiced and taught school for two 
years; was elected county superintend- 
ent of schools to fill a vacancy and re- 
elected in '86. Is married, and was 
elected senator in '90 over John Blan- 
chard, dem., after a terrific fight b3' a 
vote of 6,104 to 5,974. 

Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
ment, tinanee and claims, education, elec- 
tions, building and loan associations, state 
library, congressional apportionment. 

Seibert, Peter, (dem.), Fayetteville; 
farmer. Born in the Grand Duchj^ of 
Hesse Darmstadt, April 24, 1844. Emi- 
grated to America with his parents 
who moved on a farm 3yi miles east of 
Belleville in '52. There he was raised 
and educated, although he spent some 
time at the Belleville high school. 
Has been a member of the board of 
supervisors and was a member when 
St. Clair county was organized under 
township organization. Is married. 
Never sought an office and was elected 
senator in '90, receiving 6,054 votes to 




PETER SEIBERT. 

S. C. Smiley's (rep.) 4,951, running sev- 
eral hundred ahead of his ticket. Sen- 
ator Seibert was a republican until '80, 
and began voting the democratic ticket 
in '82, the tariff policy of the republi- 
cans being too much for him. He has 
been a democrat ever since. 



Committees: Charitable institutions (chair- 
man), revenue, appropriations, roads and 
bridges, agriculture, congressional ap230r- 
tioniiient, militaiy, penal and reformatory, 
mines and mining, county and township or- 
ganization. 

Thiele, Emil, (dem.), Chicago; drug- 
gist. Born near Cologne on the Rhine, 
March 2, 1859, and emigrated to Chi- 




EMIL THIELE. 

cago soon after the great fire. Served 
for a time while a boy in a drug store, 
and graduated from the Chicago Col- 
lege of Pharmacy in '80. He has owned 
his present drug store on Archer ave- 
nue for about seven years, and has an 
interest in another one. Is not mar- 
ried. Was nominated as a representa- 
tive of the strong German element in 
his district, and his popularity among 
his neighbors is attested by the fact 
that he was elected in '90 over Richard 
Burke, rep. and lab., the preceding 
senator, by a vote of 8,601 to 4,930. 
Senator Thiele has always voted with 
that element in the senate that has 
sought to restrict the powers and priv- 
ileges of corporations and monopolies, 
although he does not go to an extreme. 
Is always in attendance. 

Committees: Municipalities (chairman), 
judicial department, revenue, expenses of 
the general assembly, charitable institutions, 
penal and reformatory, education, elections, 
senatorial apportionment, library, labor and 
manufactures. 

Wall, Hampton W., (dem.). Staun- 
ton; retired farmer. Born Nov. 10, 
1832, on a farm near Staunton. Re- 
ceived a common school education. Is 
married. Has filled the offices of jus- 
tice of the peace and member of the 
board of supervisors, and was a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives in 
'77 and '79. Was elected to the state 
senate in '92 over James H. Hackett, 



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rep., by a vote of 9,1)96 to 7.287, runnitis^- 
ahead of his ticket. Senator Wall 
stands plump on the democratic plat- 
form and insists that all ])led<^es onyht 
to be fulfilled. The senator has mad." 




HAMPTON W. WALL. 

a strong"- fight this session for economy 
in the expenditure of public money. 

Committees: Finance and claims (chair- 
man), warehouses, revenue, appropriations, 
insurance, public buildings, roads an i 
bridges, senatorial apportionment, building 
and loan associations, mines and mining, 
county and township organization, federal 
relations. 

Wells, Albert W., (dem.), Ouincy; 
law3^er. Born in South Woodstock, 
Conn., May 9, 1841. Received an 
academic education, and spent his 
early days on a farm. Taught school 




ALBERT W. WKLLS. 

in New Jersey for several 3^ears, re- 
signing to enlist in the Union army. 
Senator Wells took a full law course at 
Columbia college, and was admitted to 



the bar in New York city. He moved 
to Ouincy in '70, has been a successful 
lawyer ever since, and stands high at 
the bar. Has held various offices of 
trust, and has been a member of the 
board of education of Quincy for sev- 
eral years, and is president of the 
board now. Is a director and the at- 
torney for the Ricker National bank, 
and holds a like position in the Ouincy 
Gas company and other companies. 
Is married and has a famiU'. Was 
elected to the house in '86 and again 
in '88; advanced to the senate in '90 
practically without opposition, the re- 
publicans not naming a man against 
him. The senator has been a leader in 
every legislature of which he has been 
a member; was chairman of the house 
caucus in '89, and of the senate caucus 
in '91, and has served on the most im- 
portant committees in both branches. 



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Committees: Judicial department, (chair- 
man), judiciary, railroads, appropriations, 
penal and reformatory, education, printing, 
elections, congressional apportionment, 
license and miscellany, labor and manufac- 
tures. 

Wright, Samuel W., Jr., (dem.), Sul- 
livan ; farmer. Was born in Moul- 
trie counly, June 30, 1850, and is now 
an extensive farmer and stock raiser, 
owning a fine farm about three miles 
from Sullivan. Was educated in the 
public schools and finished in Bastian's 
Seminary, Sullivan, at that time an 
institution of considerable celebrity. 
Is a representative farmer, and has 
served several terms on the board of 
supervisors from Sullivan township, 
and was chairman most of the time. 
Is a good substantial representative of 
the farmer class in the legislature. Is 
married. Was elected to the senate in 



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I.EGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



'90, when the farmers' moveinent was 
rampant in Central Illinois, and when 
his district, usually reliably demo- 
cratic, was in doubt; he polled 6,694 
votes to 3,250 for Wm. G. Cochran, 
rep., and3,107for Georg-e Kincade, peo. 

Committees: Railroads (chairman), pub- 
lic buildings and grounds (chairman), fei s 
and salaries (c-hairman), judicial depart- 




ment, warehouses, appropriations, corpora- 
tions, cliaritable institutions, senatorial ap- 
portionment, visit penal and reformatory, 
world's fair, agriculture, county and town- 
ship organization. 

Zearing, Louis, (rep.), Ladd; farmer. 
Born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Sept. 
10, 1827, and moved with his parents to 
Bureau county in '36. Was educated 
in the district schools of primitive Illi- 
nois. One of his early experiences 
was the marketing- in Chicago of a load 
of wheat taken to the einbryo metrop- 
olis by ox team. In '50 he crossed the 
plains to California and in that state 
cast his first vote, for a republican, of 
course — Winfield Scott for president 
in '52. Returning from California in 
'54, he married and beg^an farming-, 
and has held various local offices. Was 
elected to the senate in '90 by a vote 
of 5,018 to 4,641 for Simon Elliott, dem. 
Is one of the most reliable and indus- 
trious members, and is held in high 
esteem. Mr. Zearing never misses a 
session, and his record in the general 
assembly of '93, as well as in that of 
'91, will bear the closest investig-ation. 
The Senator is a staunch republican, 
and acts on his own judgment on all 
questions not of a purely party nature. 

Committees: Expenses of general assem- 
bly, charitable institutions, penal and refor- 
matory, public buildings, printing, roads 
and bridges, state library, canals and rivers, 
agriculture, labor and manufactures. 



Taylor, Rev. Frederick Wm., D. D., 

Chaplain of the Senate, is the eldest 
son of Maj. Alfred Taylor, M. D., and 
Helen M. lyconard, and was born in 
Toledo, O., Jan. 11, 1853. Both his 
paternal and maternal g"randfathers 
were army officers in the war of 1812, 
and his father was surg-eon with the 
rank of major in the 2d O. Cav. during- 
the late war from '61 to '63. Rev. Dr. 
Tajdor's early life was passed in 
Cleveland, of which his g-randfather 
Blisha Taylor, was one of the earliest 
settlers and most prominent citizens. 
Rev. Dr. Taylor g-raduated from West- 
ern Reserve University in '73 and from 
the General Theolog-ical Seminary in 
New York in '76. After two years' 
ministry in Ohio and New York, he 
was appointed Rector of Holy Trinity 
Parish, Danville, 111., in '78, where he 
remained until Sept. '86, when he be- 
came Rector of St. Paul's Pro-Cathe- 
dral, in the See City of the Diocese, 
Spring-field. Here he has led a busy 
life as a Parish Priest, and in the af- 
fairs of the Diocese as one of the 
Archdeacons, and as a member of var- 
ious diocesan boards, and editor of the 
diocesan paper. He has sat in four 
successive General Conventions of the 
lypiscopal church, as one of the Clin- 
ical Deputies from the Diocese of 
Spring-field, and has taken an active 
part in the debates and leg-islation of 
that dig-nified body. He is the first 




CHAPLAIN TAXLOR. 

Priest of the Episcopal Church who 
has been Chaplain of the Senate. He 
is a strict churchman in relig-ion, and 
a democrat in politics. * He is a plain, 
clear and forcible preacher, and is 
well known in his church as a tren- 
chant writer. 



LEGISLATIVE SOtiVENlK. 



39 



THE SPEAKER. 



The Speaker of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, Hon. Clayton E. Crafts, is 
now serving' his sixth consecutive term 
as a member of the lower branch of 
the g^eneral assembly, having been 
elected in '82, '84, '86, '88, '90, '92. This 
is his second term as speaker — the only 
two sessions when his party has been 
in a clear majority in the house since 
1863. Mr. Crafts was born in Auburn, 
Geanga Co., O., July 8, 1848. His 
father and his grandfather were far- 



of the Iroquois Club and the County 
Democracy, and is one of the most 
skillful leaders in the state. As a par- 
liamentarian he is the peer of any 
man. He was the candidate of the 
democrats for speaker in the session 
of '87, and also in '89, '91, and '93, and 
has been regarded as the democratic 
leader in every session after his first. 
He is earnest, incisive and forcible in 
debate, and there is no one to compete 
with him in shrewd manipulation of 
parliamentary law. As speaker his 
fairness and impartiality are conceded 
even by his political enemies. To Mr. 




niers, and the latter was about the 
only man in his neig-hborhood that was 
capable of drawing up legal documents 
while the former was the only demo- 
crat in Auburn for many years. Mr. 
Crafts was educated at Hiram College, 
one of the most famous educational in- 
stitutions of Ohio, and is a graduate of 
the Cleveland Law School, and was 
admitted to the bar in '68. A portion 
of his legal study was pursued in the 
office of John J. Van Allen, a cele- 
brated lawyer and politician of New 
York. He moved to Chicag-o in '69, 
and has had a most extraordinarily 
successful practice ever since. He is 
a member of the Presbyterian church, 



Crafts more than any man is due the 
credit for the successful contest made 
by the democrats in the last g'eneral 
assembly for the election of Gen. Pal- 
mer to the United States senate. 

As a delegate to state and national 
democratic conventions Mr. Crafts has 
had a g^reat deal to do in shaping- the 
policy of his party, as well as selecting- 
candidates for the endorsement of the 
people. He is a strict party man, and 
believes in a strong organization of 
his party in the leg-islature, with a rig-- 
orous espionage on those who neglect 
their duties. Mr. Crafts lives in the 
suburban villag-e of Austin, in Cook 
county, is married and well to do. 



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THE HOUSE. 



The House of Representatives con- 
sists of 153 members elected every two 
years. They receive $5 per diem dur- 
ing- the session, $50 for stationerj^ and 
10 cents a mile for the actual distance 
from their homes to the state capitol. 
The present house of representatives 
was chosen in November, 1892, and 
consists of 78 democrats and 75 repub- 
licans, with the seat of Mr. Bisli, re- 
publican, of Chicago, contested by Sol 
Van Praag-, democrat. Hon. Ernst 
Meyer died in Spring-field May 11, '93. 

Biog-raphies marked thus * are not 
accompanied by portraits. 

It is fortunate that the executive 
officers of the house are intelligent 
and cool-headed. Otherwise the jour- 
nals would exhibit evidences of some 
of the exciting scenes enacted on the 
floor, and the confusion and wrangles 
"that take place frequently would end 
in broken heads. Speaker Crafts, 
Clerk Ross, Doorkeeper Browne, As- 
sistant Doorkeeper Rives and their 
assistants are good officers, reliable 
and courteous. The house is gener- 
ally a placid body, but occasionally a 
storm breaks on the floor that bids 
fair to annihilate many members. 



THE STEERING COMMITTEES. 

Indispensable in the conduct of a 
campaign in which party advantages 
are to be won or lost through legisla- 
tive action, are the advisory or "steer- 
ing" committees of each party. The 
leadership is entrusted to these com- 
mittees for the session, and the rank 
and file are expected to obey orders, 
even to the point of resigning their 
seats. In the senate these committees 
are made up thus : 

Democrats: Caldwell (ch airman ),Ma- 
lione3% Craig, Salomon and Green. 
. Republicans: Berry(chairman),Bass, 
Aspinwall, Sheridan and Knopf. 

The house steering committees are 
composed of the following : 

Democrats: McKinlay (chairman), 
Morris, Johnson of Whiteside, Wilson 
of Ogle, O'Donnell, Mclnerney, Don- 
nelly, Smith of Livingston, Merritt, 
Carson, Ferns and Farrell. 

Republicans : Hawley (chairman). 
Paddock, Warder, Anderson of Hen- 
■derson, Meyer of Cook, O'Connell, 
McKnight, Langhenry, Berry. 



Ross, Robert W., (dem.), Vandalia ; 
real estate dealer and Clerk of the 
House. Was born in Fayette county, 
Dec. 31, 1843, of Scotch-Welsh parents, 
who moved to Illinois from Kentucky. 
He was educated in the common schools 
and at Tuscarora Academy, Penn., 
which he left in March '63 to enter the 
county clerk's office of Fayette county. 
He entered the army, enlisting in Co. 
F, 143d 111. Inf.; was mustered out in '64 
and resumed his position in the county 
clerk's office. After a year he went 
into the drug business and kept it up 
for three years, when he sold out and 
became a deputy in the circuit clerk's 
office. He was elected clerk of the 
House of Representatives in '75, and 
was elected circuit clerk of Fayette 
county in '76, and re-elected in'80 — 
eight years in all Then he served 




CLEKK ROSS. 

two more years in his successor's of- 
fice. He was appointed by President 
Cleveland recorder-general of the land 
office and resigned when President 
Harrison assumed charge. Has since 
been engaged in the real estate busi- 
ness. He was nominated for clerk of 
the house last January by acclamation 
in the democratic caucus. He is not 
married and own 160 acres of land. 

Browne, Edgar S., Doorkeeper of 
the House, of Mendota, was born in 
Mason. Me., May. 11, 1851, and is a 
lawyer by profession. Mr. Browne 
was educated at the Norway, (Me.) 
Normal Institute, and graduated from 
Gould's Academy, Bethel, and the 
State Normal School at Farming-ton ; 
was admitted to the bar in '70, when 
he was 20 years old. Practiced at 
Portland for five years, and moved to 
Chicago, where he remained for a 



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year, and in '77 moved to LaSalle 
county. He was State Commissioner 
of Deeds in Maine ; has been city at- 
torney of Mendota, and was a member 
of the house of representatives in 




DOOKKKEl'EK I!R(n\ NE. 

Illinois in '87 and '89 ; was chosen 
doorkeeper of the house in '91, and 
was again complimented last Janu- 
ary, and has organized a system for 
each branch under him, so that all the 
employes under his supervision dis- 
charge their duties without friction. 
In the session of '89 he succeeded as a 
member of the house in getting the 
Chicago Drainage scheme amended so 
as to protect the Illinois Valley people. 
He is married and has two children. 




CONKAD A. AMBROSIUS. 



Ambrosius, Conrad A., (dem.), Col- 
linsville ; merchant. Born in Hesse 
Cassel, Germany, Jan. 18, 1839, and 
emigrated to America in Jan. '41 with 



his parents, arriving at New Orleans- 
and coming up the Mississippi, the 
route all western settlers took in the 
early days, there being no railroads,, 
and travel overland being attended 
with difficulties and dangers. His par- 
ents stopped in St. Louis until Jan. '49 
and then moved to what is now Col- 
linsville, an Indian transporting the 
family with four oxen. Mr. Ambro- 
sius has lived near and in Collinsville 
ever since. His education was limited; 
he hardly knew what a public school 
was, and obtained most of his educa- 
tisn by his own efforts. He remained 
on the farm until '74, when he went 
into the coal business, being elected 
president and general superintendent 
of the Canteen Coal Mining Co. He 
continued in this until '87, when he 
sold out and went into the real estate 
business. He afterwards opened a. 




JAMES J. ANDERSON. 

general merchandise store under the 
firm name of Ambrosius & Sons, and 
it is one of the most substantial con- 
cerns in the city, doing a large and 
safe business. Is married and finan- 
cially independent of the world. Has. 
been supervisor for several years, was 
alderman fourteen years, and has held 
other offices. He was nominated for 
representative a little against his will, 
but like a true democrat, bowed to the 
will of the party and accepted, mak- 
ing a thorough and successful canvass.- 
He never sought an office in his life. 

Committees: Mines and mining, public 
charities, building and loan associations, 
retrenchment, drainage, soldiers' home,, 
farm drainage. 

Anderson, James J., (dem.), Nash- 
ville; lawyer. Born in Nottoway Co., 
Va., Dec. 13, 1849, and moved with his- 



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feither to St. Louis two years later, re- 
ineiiniiif;" there until he was 23. He 
-was educated in the public schools of 
St. Louis and the City University. He 
moved to Richview, 111., in '72, and 
learned teleg-raphy, accepting' a place 
on the Iron Mountain railroad in Mis- 
souri. He read law in Richview and 
in his new position when his duties did 
not demand his attention, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in '75, beg-inning- the 
practice of his profession at (ilasg^ow, 
Mo. In '76 he moved to Nashville, 
bought The Democrat from Fornian 
Brothers, and run it in connection with 
his legal business until last July, when 
he sold the paper and devoted himself 
entirely to his profession. He has 
been master in chancery of Washing-- 
ton county for many years, and was 
city attorney of Nashville for a term. 
He made The Democrat second to none 
in power and standing- while he had 
charge of it, and stands very close to 
Col. Morrison, Congressman Forman 
and other prominent democratic lead- 
ers in the state. He has been one of 
the ruling spirits in the Illinois Press 
association, and the Southern Illinois 
Press association. Is married. 

Conunitlees: Penal and i-eforniatory (chair- 
man), congressional apportionment, judi- 
ciary, judicial department, finance, retrencli- 
inent. 

Anderson, James O., (rep.), Decorra; 
farmer. Born in Henderson countv. 




.TAMKS O. ANDERSON. 

Aug. 1, 1845, was raised on a farm, re- 
ceived a common school education, and 
left Monmouth Colleg'e when a student 
to enlist in the 28th 111. Inf., in which 
he attained the rank of second lieuten- 
ant. Returning from the war he mar- 
ried and eng-ag-ed in farming-, which is 



his present occupation. He was sheriff 
of Henderson county for ten j'ears, 
and gained considerable notoriety by 
the pursuit of two desperadoes, one of 
whom being- taken to Durand, Wis., 
was lynched. He was elected to the 
house in '88, '90, and '92. His value as 
a leg-islator has been increased with 




MICHAEL HAKTOX. 

each return to the house, and he is in- 
fluential and popular with his col- 
leag-ues. 

Committees: Af^ricultuie, to visit penal 
and reformatory institutions, world's fair, 
congressional apportionment, steering com- 
mittee. 

•^-Armstrong, Fowler A., (rep.), Mas- 
sac Creek ; teacher and farmer. Born 
in Massac county, March 18, 1847. 
Served on the Tennessee and Cumber- 
land rivers on a g-un-boat during the 
war. Was county superintendent of 
schools from '84 to '88, and was elected 
to the house in '90 and '92. Is married 
and owns 160 acres of land. 

Committees: County and township organi- 
zation, agriculture, federal relations, sold- 
iers' home, horticulture. 

Barton, Michael, (dem.). Spring Val- 
lej-; bank cashier. Born in County 
Kerry, Ireland, Sept. 1, 1834, and came 
to America in '49 with his parents, 
who settled in Kentucky. Moved to 
Illinois in '54. Learned the trade of 
a harness maker, and worked at it for 
some time. In '64 accepted a place as 
clerk in the Rock Island railroad offi- 
ces at Ottawa; was promoted to be 
station ag-ent of the same road at La 
Salle in '66, and in '86 he resig-ned to 
accept the position of cashier of the 
Spring Vallev National bank. He is 
one of the best and most reliable mem- 
bers of the leg-islature. Is married. 
Was elected to the house in '90 and 



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again in '92. He bent his energies in 
the last legislature towards the enact- 
ment of an arbitration law that would 
prevent strikes. 

Committees: Mines and mining (chairman), 
canal -river improvement and commerce, 
penal and reformatory, manufactures, state 
and municipal indebtedness, insurance. 

* Baldwin, Leverett S., (dem.), 
Windsor; farmer. Born in Hinesburg, 
Vt., Oct. 28, 1839, and is self-educated. 
Was with the I. & St. L,. R. R. as train 
boy, brakeman, baggageman and 
freight conductor. Moved to Windsor 
27 years ago, and has held minor offi- 
ces. Is married and owns 500 acres of 
land. 

Committees: Railroads, live stock and 
dairying, labor and industrial affairs, judi- 
cial department, drainage, farm drainage, 
Wann investigation (special.) 

Beals, Reuben F., (rep.), Galva; far- 
mer. Born near Cleveland, O., Aug. 
12, 1832, and for nineteen years he 
lived there, working on the farm and 
attending district school as oppor- 
tunity offered. He started out for 
himself at 19, as a woodchopper, which 
he followed for a short time, and then 
learned the carpenter trade. He was 
a good workman, clever with his tools 
and industrious, and soon branched 
into business for himself, taking con- 
tracts to erect houses. In '55 he emi- 
grated to Oneida, 111., and a year later 
moved into Clover township, where he 
lived for 36 years. He built houses for 




REUBEN r. BEALS. 

his neighbors for two years, and in '58 
bought 80 acres and began farming. 
By close application, economy and 
hard work he has accumvilated 250 
acres of splendid land. In Aug. '62 he 
enlisted in Co. I, 102d 111. Inf., and 
participated in all the battles of the 



Atlanta campaign, serving faithfully 
for three years and receiving one 
wound; he commanded a company sev- 
eral times. He returned to the farm 
after the war. He is an Odd Fellow, 
a Mason, and is past commander of 
Holden Post, G. A. R. He was a 
supervisor for six years, and is mar- 




KOBERT J. BECK. 

ried. He was a member of the legisla- 
ture of '91, and is highly regarded by 
his colleagues. 

Committees: State institutions, county and 
township organization, state and municipal 
indebtedness, senatorial apportionment. 

Beck, Robert J., (rep.), Chemung; 
contractor and builder. Born iii 
County Armagh, Ireland, Dec. 17, 1851, 
and emigrated with his parents to 
America in '52, going direct to Mc- 
Henry county, where he has been ever 
since. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools. Has been justice of the 
peace for twenty years and supervisor 
for ten years, and his long service jus- 
tifies the statement that he was a faith- 
ful servant of the people. Was elected 
to the house in the spring of '89 to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of 
E. M. Haines, dem. He is married 
and owns 140 acres of land. Mr. Beck 
is not an orator, but accomplishes 
more by hard work in committee rooms 
than many a man with a loud voice 
and rhetorical effects. 

Committees: Canal-river improvement and 
connnerce, state institutions, public build- 
ings, llsli and game, farm drainage. 

Berry, Daniel S., (rep.), Savanna; 
lawyer. Born in Sterling, 111., May 
13, 1858, and educated in the public 
schools. Taught school for four years 
in Whiteside county, read law at Mor- 
rison and was admitted to practice in 



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45 



■"82. The following-- .s])riiii,'- lie located 
at Savanna, where he has had a very 
successful career. He has been city 
attorney of Savanna and president of 
the board of education. He has alwavs 




DANIEL S. BEKKY. 

eloquently contended that children 
should be compelled to attend school, 
and compelled to learn the Eng-lish 
languagfe, and is a staunch friend of 
the public schools of Illinois. Is mar- 
ried. Was elected to the house in '90, 
and re-elected in '92. Is one of the re- 
publican leaders in the legislature and 
stands hijfh in party councils in the 
Illinois. He introduced and forced 
throug'h the house a bill prohibiting- 
pool selling in the steite. 




JAMES E. BISH. 

Committees: .Judiciary, railroads, educa- 
tion, elect ions, libraries, "steering committee. 

Bish, James E., (rep.), Chicago; real 
estate. Born in St. Francis Co., Mo., 
of slave parents, Oct. 1, 1859, and after 



nian3' wemderings settled in Chicago 
in '81. He received a common school 
education, principally in the Belleville 
schools. Is married. He began hus- 
tling for himself when he was 11 years 
old, and was night clerk of the Com- 
mercial hotel at Alton for several 
years ; studied law with Judge Alex. 
W. Hope for a time ; learned telegra- 
phy, and finally went to Chicago, 
where he worked for Price's Baking 
Powder Co. for nine years, and has 
held his present position with F. C. 
Vierling, real estate agent, for over a 
year. He has dabbled in politics to 
some extent, but never held a political 
office until last year, when he was san- 
itary policeman for his ward. His seat 
is being contested by Sol Van Praag, 
dem. He is writing "The Past, Pres- 
ent and Future of the Negro," and the 




EDWIN BLACK. 



work is nearing- completion. It will 
be an important addition to historical 
literature. 

Committees: Manufactures, state institu- 
tions, contingent expenses, state and muni- 
cipal indebtedness. 

Black, J. Edwin, (dem.), Bridgeport; 
farmer. Born in Lawrence county, 
March 10, 1846, and was raised on a 
farm with all its disadvantages in 
early daj's and its hard work. Edu- 
cated in the country schools, and at 19 
taught school for a time. Then he 
went to Shurtleff College, finished his 
education, returned home and again, 
taught school for three j'ears. He 
then entered the circuit clerk's office 
as chief deputy, remaining three 3'ears. 
During President Johnson's adminis- 
tration he was a clerk in the treasury 
department at Washington. He re- 
turned to Illinois in '69, married and 



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settled down on a farm, where he has 
been ever since, respected by all. 
When Dr. Lyon resigned his seat in 
the house in '90 to accept a postoffice, 
Mr. Black was elected to fill the 
vacancy, and he was re-elected in '92. 
He has always discharged his duties 
like an honest man, and to the best of 
his ability. Is married, and owns over 
300 acres of land. He is especially 
interested in legislation that will ben- 
efit farmers, in the way of improved 
roads, and his sympathies lean toward 
the weaker classes, for he favors a re- 
form school for girls and charitable 
institutions for the needj^ 

Committees: Senatorial apportionment 
(chairman), agriculture, visit charitable in- 
stitutions, drainage, libraries, executive 
department, horticulture, 

Brandt, John N., (dem.). Polo; far- 
mer and stock raiser. Born in Wash- 
ington Co., Md., Aug. 26, 18S1, and 
moved with his parents to Illinois in 
'61, settling in Ogle county, near For- 
reston. A year later they moved to 
Carroll county, where he now lives, 
although his postoffice is in Ogle. He 
was educated in the common schools 
and taught school for one year. Then 
he went into the windmill, pump and 
well business, following it successfully 
for ten years. He ran a democratic 
newspaper in Morrison for some time — 
The Dispatch — and during the cam- 
paign of '80 made things lively for the 




JOHN N. BRANDT. 

repvxblicans with his Campaign Demo- 
crat. In '81 he returned to farming 
and stock raising. He is not married 
and owns over 200 acres of fine land. 
He has been a school trustee ever since 
he went to Carroll county, and was 
elected supervisor one term when the 



township was fovir to one republican. 
He is interested in raising Morgan 
horses and Chester White hogs, and 
owns splendid specimens of each. He 
is always in attendance. 

Committees: Military affairs (chairman), 
state institutions, agriculture, executive de- 
partment, roads and bridges, soldiers' home. 




CHARLES p. BET AN. 

Bryan, Charles P., (rep.), Elmhurst; 
city address. University club, Chicago; 
journalist. Born in Chicago, Oct. 2, 
1855. Was educated at the Univer- 
sity of Virginia and the Columbia Law 
School ; was admitted to practice in 
'78, and in '79 moved to Colorado. Was 
elected to the legislature of that state 
in '80, and was urged for higher prefer- 
ment. Returned to Chicago in '83 and 
has since lead a literary life. Was a 
member of Gov. Oglesby's and Gov. 
Fifer's military staff — also of Gov. 
Altgeld's — with the rank of colonel, 
having previously served in the 1st 
regiment. I. N. G., and in the Guard of 
Colorado. Elected to the Illinois leg- 
islature in '90 and re-elected in '92. Is 
deeply interested in the success of the 
World's Columbian Exposition and in 
military matters. Is not married. He 
is on several important committees. 

Mr. Bryan is independent in his ac- 
tions, except on party questions when 
he bows to the will of the majority. 

* Bonney, Joel W., (dem.), Quincy; 
physician. Born in Strong, Maine, 
Feb. 23, 1828. In '48 he moved to 
Clark Co., Mo., where he remained 
until the fall of '59, when he went to 
Quincy. His education was meagre. 
Graduated from the State Medical 
University, St. Louis, in '57. Is mar- 
ried. 

Committees: Education, flsli and game, 
banks and banking, public charities. 



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Burke, William, (dem.), Chicag-o; 
wholesale wine and licjuor dealer. Born 
in Chicag'o June 15, 1859, and educated 
in the public schools. He learned the 
trade of a carpenter early in life, and 




WILLIAM Hl'KKK. 

followed it for five years. Then he 
went into the wholesale liquor busi- 
ness, and has been eng-ag^ed in it for 
nine years. He is interested in three 
establishments in Chicago, and does a 
larg-e business. He is not married, 
and is comfortably well off in this 
world's gfoods. He was elected to the 
house in '90, and was returned in '92, 
running- ahead of his ticket nearly 
2,500 votes. Was a member of impor- 
tant committees in the session of '91, 




PETEK CAHILL. 



and is especially interested in labor 
leg-islation, but looks after the inter- 
ests of the people reg^ardless of their 
station. 



Committees: Warehouses (chairmiin), iiui- 
nieipal corporations, railroads, sanitary 
affairs, roads and L)rid|t?(^s, revenue, live 
stock and dairying. 

Cahill, Peter, (dem.), Brimfield; far- 
mer. Born in County Meath, Ireland, 
Feb. 12, 1843, and canie to Illinois with 
his parents, landing- at New Orleans 
and taking- the Mississippi and Illinois 
rivers to Peoria, arriving- in June '47, 
where he has lived and farmed all his 
life. He was educated in the coininon 
schools. Has been a member of the 
board of supervisors for the last four- 
teen years, and for the last three years 
he has been chairman of the board, a 
position which he now fills to the 
credit of himself and his township. 
He is not married, and owns 500 acres 
of Peoria land, and there is none 
richer on the face of the g-lobe; he ac- 
cumulated it all himself by industry, 
frugalitv and intellig-ent farming-. He 




BTHELBERT CALLAHAN. 

is honest and straig-htforward in his 
dealing-s with his fellowman, and pos- 
sesses the confidence of the people of 
Peoria. 

Conniiittees: Canal-river improvement and 
commerce, roads and bridges, sanitary af- 
fairs warehouses, farm drainage, history- 
geology and science. 

Callahan, Ethelbert, (rep.), Robin- 
son; lawyer. Born near Newark, O., 
Dec. 17, 1829, and educated in the pub- 
lic schools. In '49 he moved to Craw- 
ford County, 111., and for two years 
farmed in summer and taug-ht school 
in winter; another year was spent as 
clerk in a g-eneral store; then for a 
year he was editor of The Wabash 
Sentinel, and during- the campaig-n of 
'54 he edited The Marshall Teleg-raph, 
the only anti-democratic paper in his 
cong-ressional district. He joined the 



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republicans and entered into the Fre- 
mont canipaig-n with ardor. His 
speeches were bold and uncompromis- 
ing, and attracted wide attention. In 
'60 he was the recognized leader of the 
republicans of Southern Illinois, and 
in '64 he was his party's candidate for 
congress. Gov. Oglesby appointed 
him a member of the first state board 
of equalization; he was also a member 
of the house in '75, which was con- 
trolled by the independents; in '80 was 
an elector at large, and in '88 a dis- 
trict elector. Was admitted to the bar 
when past 30 years of age, and was 
president of the state bar association 
in '89. In '90 he was elected to the 
hovise again, and returned in '92. In 
the session of '91 he offered an amend- 
ment in the house to the Australian 
election bill permitting laboring men 
to be absent from work for two hours 
■without loss of pay on election day. 
He is championing this session a bill to 
protect brakemen, by compelling rail- 
roads to block their switches and frogs. 
He is one of the ablest and best mem- 
bers of the general assembly. Is mar- 
ried and comfortably wealthy. 

Committees: Judiciary, revenue, retrench- 
ment, senatorial apportionment. 

Campbell, Albert, (rep.), Effingham; 
dry goods merchant. Born Nov. 1, 
1855, in Somerset, O., and was edu- 
cated in the common schools, at the 
same time working at whatever he 




ALBERT CAMPBELL. 

could get to do. He moved to Kffing- 
ham in '71, and worked in a planing 
mill in St. Louis in '74. Returning to 
Kffinghani in '87, he married and set- 
tled down for good. He is regarded 
with respect by the people of Btfing- 
ham, and is liberal and popular. He 



has always been a strong, hustling 
republican, and has contributed of 
time and money towards the success of 
his party. Mr. Campbell gives the 
steering committee no trouble, for he 
is alwa3^s present during sessions. 

Committees: RcTenue, finance, sanitary 
affairs, roads and bridges, public charities. 




DASIKJ. A. CAMl'BELL. 

Campbell, Daniel A., (rep.), Chicago; 
lawyer. Born in Elgin June 23, 1863, 
and was educated in the common 
schools and at the Chicago Union Col- 
lege of L,aw. Was admitted to the bar 
in '86, and has been in active practice 
ever since, principally in the real 
estate and commercial lines. Has met 
with very flattering success in his 
legal career. Is not married, and this 
is the first office he ever held. He is 
held in high esteem by his colleagues, 
and is a hard worker in committees. 
Mr. Campbell is one of the youngest 
members, and one of the most diligent 
and best informed. He performs his 
duties unostentatiously, but creditably 
to himself, his party and his constit- 
uents. In Cook county politics he is 
an active and efi^ective worker. He 
believes in a strong party organiza- 
tion of the republican members of the 
general assembly. 

Committees: Judicial department, munici- 
pal corporations, education, fees and sal- 
aries, flsh and game. 

Carlin, Stephen E., (dem.). Canton; 
lawyer. Born in Fulton county, Feb. 
8, 1849. Educated in the public schools 
and at Ann Arbor University, gradu- 
ating in '68. Then he taught school 
until he got tired of it, stood an exam- 
ination for admission to the bar, and 
passed in '77. He has been practicing 
with decided success ever since. Is 



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married and possessed of a comforta- 
ble competence. Mr. Carlin never 
held public office before, but made a 
splendid camijaig'n of the state in '90 
for the democratic state central com- 




•STKrHEN K. CAKLIN. 

mittee. He does not talk to the press 
g-allery, and is never on his feet unless 
he has g'ot something- to say. He has 
taken a prominent place in the house 
and is a radical in politics but conser- 
vative in other matters. 

Committees: Judiciary, miscellaneous sub- 
jects, mines and mining, state institutions, 
farm drainage, fish and game. 

Carmody, Henry P., (dem.), Chicag-o; 
contractor. Born in Simcoe, Canada, 
March 19, 1861, and moved with his 




HENRY P. CAKMODV 



parents to Chicago three months later. 
Received a common school education 
until 12 years old, when he beg-an to 
earn his own living- by working in the 



brick yards, packing- houses and lum- 
ber yards of Chicag-o. Is married. 
Was elected to the house in '88, re- 
elected in '90 and again in '92 by in- 
creased majorities. He is industrious 
as a legislator and one of the hardest 
workers in Chicag-o for the democratic 
ticket. He is very popular with his 
constituents, and has been on some of 
the most important committees in the 
house every session. 

Committees: Labor and industrial affairs 
(chairman), corporations, municipal corpo- 
rations, senatorial apportionment, canal- 
river improvement and commerce, public 
buildings and others of less imjiortance. 

Carson, Thomas B., (dem.). Urbana: 
salesman. Born in Urbana, 111., March 
6, 1843, and received a g-ood common 
school education. He was reared on a 
farm and left the harvest field in '61 
to join the 25th 111. Inf., with which he 




THOMAS B. CAKSON. 

served to the close of the war. He is 
an uncompromising democrat, and has 
been an active participant in the cam- 
paig-ns in eastern Illinois for years. 
In '85 he was elected doorkeeper of the 
house by the democrats, and during- 
the fierce Morrison-Logan senatorial 
contest, he filled the position with dig-- 
nit3' and to the entire satisfaction of 
everybody. During- Cleveland's first 
term he was a special ag'-ent of the in- 
ternal revenue department. Is mar- 
ried. Was elected to the house in '90 
and ag-ain in '92, and in both sessions 
has taken an active part in leg-islation. 
In the session of '91 Mr. Carson was 
assig-ned to important committees. 

Committees: IJanks and banking (chair- 
man), municipal corporations, federal rela- 
tions, history-geology and science, drainage, 
enrolled and engrossed bills, steering com- 
mittee. 



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Carter, Robert S., (dem.), Peters- 
burg-; fire insurance. Was born in L,a 
Grang-e, Fayette Co., Texas, Julj' 26, 
1855, and moved to Petersburg in '73. 
He received his education in the public 




EOBEKT S. CARTER. 

and private schools of Texas. Is mar- 
ried. He beg-an life for himself in '7J 
as a drug- clerk, filling prescriptions 
until '73. He was deputy circuit clerk 
of Menard county for four years, from 
''73 to '77, and then he went into the 
abstract, loan, real estate and insur- 
ance business at Petersburg^, and has 
been exclusively in the line of general 
insurance since '81. Is master in chan- 
cery of Menard county now. Mr. Car- 
ter is a staunch democrat and is always 
in his seat. 




GEORGE S. CAUGHLAN. 

Committees: Insurance, education, appro- 
priations, claims, flsh and game, and others 
of less importance. 

Caughlan, George S., (rep.), Tren- 



ton; student of law. Born in St. 
L/Ouis Jan. 22, 1865, and is a son of a 
Methodist minister, whose duties as a 
minister of the g-ospel necessitated a 
frequent change of residence, and Mr. 
Caughlan acquired a good common 
education in various cities of Southern 
Illinois. He entered McKendree Col- 
lege at lycbanon, when he made up for 
lost time by energy and application. 
Although a member of the legislature, 
he is now taking a course of law at 
that college. Is married and has held 
several minor offices. He is an in- 
cisive speaker, and when he claims 
the floor, which is not often, he com- 
mands the attention of the house. 
He is too young to have a record in 
the past, but bids fair to carve out a 
promising future. He displayed con- 
siderable ability in the debate on the 
report of the special committee to in- 
vestigate the Wann disaster. 




CHARLES T. CHERRY. 

Committees: Judicial department, ware- 
houses, mines and mining, building and loan 
associations, miscellaneous, executive de- 
partment, to investigate the Wann disaster 

(special). 

Cherry, Charles T., (rep.), Oswego; 
farmer. Born in Oswego Feb. 20, 1858, 
and was educated in the public schools. 
He owns a magnificent tract of Ken- 
dall county land, which he farms 
himself, and on which he raises fine 
Poland-China hogs, Cotswold sheep 
and road and draft horses. He is pop- 
tilar with his colleagues on both sides 
of the house; is always at his seat, and 
is particularly interested in legislation 
affecting the farmer, stock raiser and 
republican party. Was elected to the 
house in '90, and again in '92. Is 
married and has one son. Mr. Cherry 
takes an active interest in legislation, 



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and his value increases with his leni4"th 
of service. 

('ouimittees : Coriioriition^, live stock and 
dairyiiin', lianUs and l>anlviiif^, agriciUture, 
loan aiKl homcslcad a-^sociations. 

Claggett, Bernard J., (deni.), Lexinj^. 
ton; banker. Born in Lexing-ton, Feb. 
12, 1861, and is indebted to the careful 
and systematic training- of his father 
for his success as a man. He was edu- 
cated at Wesle^'an Universit}', and at 
Notre Dame, Ind., taking- the literary 
course at the latter; g-raduated at Jones' 
Commercial CoUeg-e, St. Louis, in '80. 
Then he returned home and entered 
his father's store as clerk. In '82 he 
■was admitted to the firm, and in De- 
cember, when the First National Bank 
was org'-anized, he was made cashier, 
a position he has held ever since. In 
addition to his connection with the 
bank and the larg-e business interests 
of his father's estate, he is larg-ely in- 
terested in farming-, stock raising-, and 
is a partner in the mercantile business 
of Clag-gett Bros. & Co., and Clagg-ett 
& Stevens, liverymen. In '88 he was 
elected to the city council, and althoug'-h 
the young-est member, was made presi- 
dent, which office he filled with much 
credit. When the city reorg-anized he 
was chosen first mayor without oppo- 
sition, and was honored by a unani- 
mous re-election. He resig-ned to take 
his seat in the house, but the council 
refused to accept it. He has alwa^'s 
been a democrat, and always took a 




BERNARD J. CLAGGETT. 

deep interest in politics, contributing- 
liberally to the campaig-n. Is married 
and owns considerable valuable land. 
Comniittees: I'rinting (chairnian) , penal 
and reformatory, banks and banking, state 
and municipal "indebtedness, claims, mili- 
tary. World's fair. 



Clark, William O., (rep.), Peoria; 
hotel proprietor. Born in Lynn, Mass., 
Jan. 18, 1844, and was associated with 
his father in the hotel business up to 
the time of the death of the latter. 
He has been proprietor of hotels in 
Rock Island, Geneseo, Mattoon. Bush- 
nell, Charleston, Spring-field, Bloom- 




WILLIAM O. CLARK. 

ing-ton and Peoria, and is well known 
to the traveling- public. Received a 
public school education, and is mar- 
ried. Enlisted in Co. A, 143d 111. Inf., 
and was in tl:e arm3' of the southwest. 
He has been a member of the city 
council of Peoria, and is interested in 
the welfare of his constituents, and it 
can be said that a better servant 
Peoria never sent to Springfield. He 
is an Elk, a Modern Woodman and a 
member of the Royal Leag-ue. 

Committees: Railroads, agriculture, canal- 
river improvement and commerce, state and 
municipal indebtedness, claims. 

Conway, Bryan, (dem.), Chicag-o; 
employed by Armour & Co. Born in 
Chicag-o, Oct. 14, 1861, and has grown 
up as one of the most popular young 
democrats In his district, being espe- 
cially liked b^' the laboring men. Re- 
ceived a fair education at the public 
and parochial schools of Chicago. He 
has been employed in nearly every de- 
partment of Armour's & Co.'s great 
butchering and packing establishment, 
and has held responsible positions 
with that firm for the last twelve 
years. Was elected to the house in '90, 
and again in '92 by an increased ma- 
jority'. During'- both sessions he took a 
prominent part in all legislation, being 
especially active on measures that con- 
cerned Cook covxntv and his own con- 



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stituents. He is one of the niost 
effective workers in the democratic 
party in Cook county. He is married 
an in independent circumstances finan- 
cially. 




BKTAN CONWAY. 

Committees: Sanitary affairs (chairman), 
railroads, warelionsey, municipal corpora- 
tions, canal-river improvement and com- 
merce 

Creighton, Thomas H., (rep.), Fair- 
field ; teacher. Born on a farm in 
Wayne county, Nov. 29, 1865, and was 
educated in the common schools and 
at Hayward CoUeg-iate Institute in 
Fairfield, graduating in the class of 
'90. He is too young to have a politi- 
cal record and does not seek one, being 
quiet and retiring. His tastes rather 









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XHUilAS H. CilKIGUTON. 

run in the direction of literature and 
learning. He was superintendent of 
the Fairfield city schools for two years, 
resigning on his nomination to the 



house. He was named by acclama- 
tion in the republican convention last 
spring. He is very anxious for the 
passage of a uniform text book bill, 
and is a hard working, conscientious 
member who can be relied on to be in 
his seat during sessions. Is not mar- 
ried. 

Committees: Education, fees and salaries, 
history-geology and science, libraries, exec- 
utive department. 

Cusey, John, (rep.), mechanic; Far- 
mer City. Born in Richland Co., O., 
April 9, 1822, and moved to McLean 
Co., 111., in '36, and to DeWitt county 
in '83, and has lived there ever since. 
He is a self-educated man, having no 
chance to attend the district schools of 
his native state. He has a good com- 
mon school education, however, thanks 
to his ambition and pluck. He is mar- 
ried, and was state senator from '72 to 
'76, and member of the state board of 




JOHN CU>ET. 

equalization from '80 to '84. He has 
been township assessor nine times, and 
member of the county board for both 
McLean and DeWitt counties, repre- 
senting the latter now. Mr. Cusey 
was a member of the first republican 
state convention, which met in Bloom- 
ington in '54, and nominated Jesse O. 
Norton of Will county for congress, 
the first republican congressman from 
Illinois. In the same convention he 
seconded a resolution that named the 
new party "Republican." He has al- 
ways voted in opposition to the demo- 
cratic party. 

Committees: Revenue, drainage, federal 
relations, history-geology and science. 

*Dazey, Mitchell, (dern.), Lima; far- 
mer. Born in Bourbon Co., Ky., Oct. 
2, 1820. Educated in common schools, 



I.I'X'.ISLATIVK SOUVKNIK. 



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and was elected to the house in '89 to 
fill a vacancy. Is married and owns 
305 acres of kind. 

Conmiittees : Drainaj^e, farm drainage, rf- 
trenchniciit, ai)|)ropriati<)HS, libraries. 

* Dean, William C, (deni.), Ava; 
miller and farmer. Born in Randolph 
Co., 111., Dec. 10, 1838, and moved to 
Ava in '76. Was educated in the com- 
mon schools; was in the mercantile 
business until two years ago, when he 
purchased a roller mill. Is married 
and owns 3,000 acres of land. 

i.Coniiiiittees: Agriculture, to visit educ-a- 
tioiial institutions, state institutions, roads. 

Dearborn, Luther fl., (dem.), Aurora; 
lawyer. Born at Geneva, 111., Aug. 5, 
1858, and educated at Bishop Whipple's 
School, Fairbault, Minn., and at Ra- 
cine, Wis. He read law in the office 
of Hon. John N. Jewett; afterwards 




LUTUEl; M. UK.VIUiliKN. 

spent two 3'ears at Harvard L,aw 
School, and was admitted to practice 
in '82. He remained in Chicago for 
three years in the law office of his 
father, Hon. Luther Dearborn, and 
John B. Cohrs, and then formed a 
partnership with Judge Annis in Au- 
rora. Is not married. He was elected 
to the house iu '90 and again in '92, 
and in both he held important com- 
mittee assignments. 

Committees: Roads and bridges (chair- 
man), judiciary, railroads, manufactures, 
insurance, contingent expenses, to investi- 
gate tlie sweat shop evil (special). 

Deneen, Charles S., (rep.), Chicago; 
lawyer. Born in Edwardsville May 
4, 1863, and moved to Chicago in the 
fall of '85. He was educated at Mc- 
Kendree College, Lebanon, in which 
institution his father was a professor 
for nearly thirty years. Mr. Deneen 



graduated in law in '85 and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Jan. '87, and has 
had a very successful and profitable 
practice ever since. Is married and 
this is his first office. He taught in a 




CHARLES S. DENEKN. 

night school in Chicago for three 
years. Was attorney for Representa- 
tive Bish in the contested election 
case of VanPraag vs. Bish, and his 
skillful handling of the case attracted 
the attention of the older political 
leaders. Mr. Deneen is a young man 
with flattering prospects for a splendid 
future, and is highh' regarded by those 
who know him. 

Conmiittees: Corporations, drainage, ju 
dicial department, laljor and industi'ial af- 
faiis, to investigate the sweat shop evil 




JOHN C. DONNELLY. 



Donnelly, John C, (dem.); Wood- 
stock; clerk. Was born in Wood- 
stock, Nov. 3, 1855, and educated in 



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the coiiimon schools with a finishing 
course at Notre Dame. For two years 
he was clerk in the office of the circuit 
clerk of McHenry county. He also 
has represented the Northwestern 
railroad in the south. He was deputy 
collector of internal revenue under 
Cleveland. Mr. Donnelly is one of 
the most popular and affable members 
of the g-eneral assembly. Was elected 
to the house in '90, and althoug-h the 
district is the strongest republican 
district in the state and an independ- 
ent democrat was running against 
him he received more votes than either 
of the republicans or the independent. 
He is the first democrat that has been 
returned from the district a second 
time immediately following the first. 
He is very influential in northern Illi- 
nois democratic politics, and takes a 
prominent part in all important legis- 
lation. 

Committees: Corporations (chairman), 
banks and banking, live stock and dulvying, 
sanitary affairs, Insurance, misCfUaneous 
subjects, enrolled and engrossed bills, sena- 
torial apportioment, steering- comniittee. 

Douglas, John J., (rep.), Chester; 
farmer. Born in Chester Aug. 17, 
1849, and was educated in the common 
schools and McKendree College. Then 
he learned the trade of miller. His 
parents came from Scotland and when 
he was 22 years old he visited the 
crags and moors of the Land of the 
Thistle. Returning home he married 




JOHN J. DOUGLAS. 

in '72, bought a farm and settled down, 
and has farmed ever since. In this 
occupation he has been successful, 
owing more to his own intelligence 
and industry than to the fertility of 
the soil. He owns 340 acres of good 
land, and is one of the most reliable 



and substantial members of the house. 

Committees: Mines and mining, fees and 
salaries, roads and bridges, horticulture. 

Dow, Augustus, (rep.), Pittsfield; 
flour manufacturer. Born in South 
Coventry, Tolland county, Connecti- 
cut, Oct. 9, 1841, and in '58 moved to 
Pittsfield, where he has lived ever 




AUGUSTUS DOW. 

since. He received an academic edu- 
cation in his native town and from '62 
to '65 was connected with the pay de- 
partment of the United States army. 
After the war he returned to Pittsfield 
and engaged in the mercantile busi- 
ness, continuing it iintil '70, when he 
sold out and started the manufacture 
of flour on a large scale. Pittsfield is 
a democratic district, but he has been 
elected to the county board several 
times, and mayor of the city four 
3'ears. Mr. Dow has been connected 
with all the improvements of a local 
nature, and is regarded as one of the 
foremost and most liberal citizens. He 
is an uncompromising republican, is 
a director in the First National Bank 
and is married. 

Committees: Canal-river improvement 
and commerce, drainage, state and muni- 
cipal indebtedness, to visit charitable insti- 
tutions . 

*Drury, Joseph W., (dem.), Water- 
loo; farmer and dair3'man. Bom in 
St. Louis Feb. 5, 1832, and educated at 
McKendree College. Moved with his 
parents to Monroe county when three 
years old; was provost marshal of Mon- 
roe count}' during the war. Was 
sherifi^ from '66 to '74, excepting two 
years; has held several school offices, 
is married and owns 645 acres. 

Committees: Congressional apportion- 
ment, world's fair, horticulture, fees and 
salaries, penal and reformatory, live stock. 



I.KOISLATIVE SOUVKNIK. 



* Duncan, John H., (rep.), Marion; 
teacher. Born in Marshall Co., Ky., 
June 27, 1858, and moved with his 
parents to Williamson county in '65. 
Educated at Shurtleff College; taught 
school 3 years; elected county sviperin- 
tendent of schools in '82 and '86; elect- 
ed to the house in '90 and '92; married. 

Coniniittees: Mines and iiiininfj, revenue, 
labur, license, senatorial apportionment. 

* Dyer, John, (rep.), Fulton; shoe- 
maker. Born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., 
March 6, 1824. Enlisted in Co. F. 52d 
111. iind Co. F 93d 111. Inf. Received a 
meager education; is married and has 
been justice of the peace and on the 
county board 16 years. 

("omniittees: State institutions, public 
buildinj^s, soldieis' lionie. 

Edmiston, John D., (rep.), Olney ; 
merchant and farmer. Born in Rich- 
land county' June 13, 1861, and was 
educated in the Olney high school, 
after which he learned the painter's 
trade and then went into the mercan- 
tile business with his father. This he 
sold out and is now running a fruit 
farm of apples and peaches. Is mar- 
ried. Has been an alderman and has 
held other minor offices. He is an Odd 
Fellow, a Modern Woodman and an 
A. O. U. W. He didn't seek the nom- 
ination last year for his present of- 
fice, nevertheless was chosen by accla- 
mation and ran 500 ahead of his ticket; 
has been in politics and a delegiite to 
state conventions ever since he voted. 




JOHN D. ED.MI8TON. 

Mr. Edmiston is constant in attend- 
ance and informs himself on the 
merits of every measure that comes up. 

Committees: Railroads, state institutions, 
manufactures, sanitary affairs, enrolled and 
engrossed bills, horticulture. 



Ellsworth, Urbin S., (rep.). Deer 
Park, LaSalle Co.; farmer. Born in 
South Ottawa. April 19, 1851, and five 
years later his parents moved to Deer 
Park township. He completed his 
education at Jennings Seminary, 
Aurora, graduating in the classical 
course in '74. Two years afterwards 




ITKBIN S. ELLSWORTH. 

he married. Has represented his 
township three times on the board of 
supervisors. Is a meinber of the 
Farmers Alliance, and is a loyal re- 
publican. He received his political 
education froin his g-randfather, John 
Clark, who was dismissed from church 
in '39 because of his abolition views. 
Was elected to the house in "90 and '92. 
In the session of '91 he strongly advo- 
cated a bill for an insane hospital 
northwest of the Illinois river, in 
order to relieve the county poor houses 
of their insane charges. He is inter- 
ested especially in legislation that 
affects the Illinois river vallej^ 

Committees: Corporations, education, 
revenue, agriculture, sanitary affairs, in- 
surance. 

Erickson, Samuel E., (rep.), Chi- 
cago; depvity sheriff". Born in Lind- 
koping-, Sweden, March 4, 1860; parents 
emigrated to Chicago when he was 
four 3'ear-; old, and five years later 
the father died leaving a widow and 
several small children without means 
of support. The son left school and 
worked in a chair factory to help sup- 
port the f ainily ; then he engaged with 
Allen, Mack«S: Co., and advanced from 
errand boy to a more responsible 
place, when the firm failed. He began 
as messenger boy for the Western 
Union and worked up to the operating 
room, where he remained until he re- 



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signed to accept a place in the abstract 
department of the county, and during- 
his six years' service he held almost 
every position in the recorder's office. 
Blected to the general assembly in '90 




SAMUEL B. BRICKSON. 

he energ-etically worked in the inter- 
ests of his constituents. He is now a 
deputy under Sheriff Gilbert, who con- 
siders him one of the brig-htest and 
most trustworthy of his men. He has 
shown marked ability as a dramatic 
reader. Is not married. Ten years 
ag-o he traveled extensively in ISurope. 
In '92 was urg-ed for cong-ress ; named 
for temporary speaker but declined. 

Committees: Judicial department, muni- 
cipal corporations, live stock and dairying, 
military, printing, drainage, world's fair. 




THOMAS F. FBKNS. 



Ferns, Thomas F., (dem.), Jersey- 
ville ; lawyer. Born in Jersey ville 
July 27, 1862. Graduated from the 
Jerseyville high school in '82, and 



from the St. Louis Law School in June, 
'85, having been admitted to the bar 
March 20 previous. Mr. Ferns' suc- 
cess as a practitioner was pronounced 
from the start. He was city attorney 
of Jerseyville for three consecutive 
terms from '85 to '91, and was elected 
to the legislature in '90, and has a 
record that justifies his constituents' 
wisdom in sending him here. During 
the session of '91 he introduced and 
pushed to enactment a stringent law 
forbidding the organization of trusts 
and combinations to control markets 
and prevent open and fair competition. 
Although young he is one of the lead- 
ers in the house and has quite a repu- 
tation for ability and oratory. In past 
campaigns in western Illinois he has 
taken conspicuous part. He is already 
being urg-ed for congress next year, 
and his record in the past justifies the 
opinion that he will get there. 




JAMES p. FLETCHER. 

Committees: Railroads (chairman), 

judiciary, judicial department, senatorial 
apportionment, education, finance, federal 
relations, steering committee. 

Fletcher, James P., (rep.). Ridge 
Farm, Vermilion Co.; farmer. Born 
Feb. 14, 1855, almost on the spot where 
his house now stands. He was educated 
at Vermilion Academy and at Penn 
College, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Is married 
and has farmed all his life. He owns 
a fine herd of Chester White hogs, of 
which he is an extensive breeder. Is 
a Royal Arch Mason and has been 
worshipful master of his lodge for five 
terms ; is also a Modern Woodman ; is 
business manager of his lodge and was 
a delegate to the last state convention 
at Peoria. He is interested in any 
legislation that will benefit the farm- 



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'Crs, particularly permanent roads. He 
has never held office before, and is in 
•constant attendance. 

Coinniittees: Canal-river iniproveineut 
and commerce, manufactures, public build- 
ings, visit educational nistitutioas, farm 
•drainage, to investigate the Wann disaster. 

Farrell, James H., (dem.), Chicag-o ; 
real estate. Born in the Isle of Jer- 
sey, Nov. 19, 1842; his father was born 
in the Isle of Guern.sey. Victor Hug-o's 
birthplace, and his mother in Dublin. 
All the schooling he had was obtained 
before he was 10 years old. He arriv- 
ed in New York in '51, and began life 
as a clerk. When 19 he enlisted in Co. 
H of the famous 5th N. Y. Inf., Col. 
Jud.son Kilpatrick, commanding-, 
beginning with the battle of 
Bethel he was in nearly every 
portant battle and skirmish of 
Army of the Potomac during the war. 
When he was mustered out he entered 
the largest wall paper manufacturing- 
concern in the union as clerk, and re- 
mained there until '68 when he moved 
to Chicago, continuing- in the same 
line for two years. He has been in 
the real estate business for the past 
ten years. He has always taken g-reat 
interest in politics, and is now serving- 
his fourth consecutive term in the 
house. He organized and commanded 
the Cook County Democratic March- 
ing club, the best drilled and most 
.famous political marching organiza- 



and 
Big 
iin- 
the 




JAMES H. FARKELL. 

'tion in the country. He is al.so grand 
marshal of the democratic marching 

•clubs for Illinois, having been elected 
in '84. He has been a leader in the 
house since his first election, and has 

;served on all the most important com- 

imittees, and while he does not push 



himself forward is regarded as a man 
of ability and influence. He is mar- 
ried and in independent circumstances. 

Committees: World's fair (chairman— al80 
chairman in tlie last legislature), judicial 
department, penal and reformatory, finance, 
municipal corporations, revenue, military, 
senatorial apportionment, steering com'ittee 




DAVID FOKSYTHE. 

Forsythe, David, (dem.), Elwood, 
Will Co.; farmer. Born in County 
Antrim, Ireland, April 25, 1850, and in 
his eleventh year the family emigrated 
to America — an elder son and brother 
— the late John Forsythe, of Chicago, 
having preceded them by several 
years. David Forsythe resided with 
his brother in Chicago until he had 
completed his education in Chicago 
schools. He moved to Will county in 
'65 'and has since been engaged in 
farming and shipping live stock, in 
which he has been very successful. 
He is married and owns 960 acres of 
land, gathered by his own industry and 
shrewdness. He has been supervisor 
of his township for three years, and 
has held minor offices. He was elected 
to the house in '90, re-elected in '92 and 
has served on important committees 
and taken an active interest in legis- 
lation each session. 

Committees: Live stock and dairying 
(chairman), corporations, canal-river im- 
provement and commerce, mines and 
mining, agriculture, sanitary affairs, re- 
trenchment, miscellaneous subjects. 

Fowler, H. Robert, (dem.),iFlizabeth- 
town; lawyer, was born in Pope coun- 
ty about 35 years ago, and was edu- 
cated in the common schools, finishing 
at the Northern Normal, graduating 
in "78. He taught school eight years; 
has been principal of the schools at 
Flizabethtown and Cave-in-Rock, and 
was very successful, raising the 



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schools in Hardin county several de- 
grees in efficiency. He graduated in 
law at Ann Arbor University in '85 ; 
was admitted to practice in Michigan 
in '84 and in Illinois in '85. He was 
states attorney of Hardin county for 
four years. Mr. Fowler has had to 
fight for every step of vantage ground 
since early boyhood, and in the face of 
almost unsurmountable obstacles has 
attained a place of influence and 
standing. He made a record for 
energy as chairman of the special 
committee to investigate the accident 
at "Wann that commends him to his 
colleagues, who recognize his ability 
and honesty. He is championing a co- 
employe bill to protect railroad 
employes, and one introduced by him- 
self to secure state uniformity of text 
books. 




H. KOU I 



Committees: Judiciary, world'sfair, elec- 
tions, fees and salaries, roads and bridges, 
revenue, visit educational institutions, 
county and township organization 

Qoodall, Samuel H., (dem.), Marion; 
lawyer. Born in Marion Feb. 7, 1866, 
and graduated at the Southern Illinois 
Normal University in '87 ; taught 
school for two years in Williamson 
county and received a state certificate 
to teach. Graduated from the Ann 
Arbor I^aw School with the degree of 
L. L. B. in '90; was quiz master in the 
school in '90 and '91, and in this latter 
year received the degree of L. L^. M. 
Was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 
'90 and began practicing his profession 
next year, iu which he has been suc- 
cessful. He has been city attorney of 
Marion. He is not married. He is 
very anxious to cut down the usurous 
rates for tax sales, and get his county 



into democratic congressional and 
senatorial districts. Is an aggressive 
and independent member with nerve 
enough to demand and insist that his. 
section be jriven fair treatment. 




SAMUEL H. GOODALL. 

Committees: Miscellaneous subject® 
(chairman), judiciary, judicial department, 
education, mines and mining, claims, 

Qleeson, James F., (dem.), Chicago r 
telegraph operator. Born in Chicago" 
Jan. 17, 1859, and graduated in the 
commercial course of the Watertown 
(Wis.) branch of Notre Dame Univer- 
sity. He had charge of the West 
Division police telegraph system as 
superintendent for over six years, and 
in '84 helped put up the first police 
boxes in the citv. He was elected to- 




JAMES F. GLEESON. 



the house in '86 and returned in '92, 
Is not married. He is a strong worker 
in the democratic party in Chicago,^ 
and Speaker Crafts has recognized. 



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his ability by placing- him on several 
important committees. In the legis- 
lature of '87 he was active in the in- 
terest of labor legislation. 

Coiniiiittees: Municipal corporations, for 
poriitions, labor ami industrial affairs, mili- 
tary affairs, printiiiff. 

Gill, Michael J., (dem.), Alton; glass- 
worker. Born in New York City Dec. 
5, 1866, and is one of the promising- 
j'oung men of the house. His parents 
moved to Kentucky in '68 and he went 
to Alton in '82, where he has since re- 
sided, although he learned his trade in 
Wellington, O., in '81. His schooling 
was entirely at night, as he could not 
afford the time during the day; he 
learned German unaided. He is mar- 
ried, and already has made his influ- 
ence felt in the house as a champion 
of the rights of the laboring classes. 
Is aggressive in their behalf. 




MICHAEL J. GILL. 

Committees: World's fair, mines and 
mininji, Uibor and industrial, public build- 
ings, fish and game, and others of less im- 
portance. 

Qo-wer, Bailey A., (rep.), Odell; 
farmer and stock raiser. Born in 
Franklin Co., Me., Oct. 27, 1835, and 
moved to Livingston Co., 111., in '56, 
where he has lived and earned a stand- 
ing and reputation second to none. 
His education was completed at the 
Maine Wesleyan Seminary, at Kent's 
Hill. He taught school for a time 
when a young man, but has farmed 
nearly all his life. He has filled vari- 
ous offices of minor importance. Is 
married and owns 950 acres of Living- 
ston county land, and there is none 
better in the wide world. In the way 
of live stock he makes a specialty of 
road and carriage horses and thor- 
oughbred cattle. He is regarded as one 



of the substantial and reliable men of 
the house. He has always voted the 
republican ticket, casting his first vote 
for Lincoln in '60. He is always in 
attendance when the house meets. 




BAILEY A. GOWEK. 

Committees: Alines and mining, conting- 
ent expenses, fish and g.iiiu', public build- 
ings. 

Griggs, Edward H., (rep.), Chicago; 
fire insurance. Bora in Dedham, 
Mass., March 19, 1835. Came to Illi- 
nois in '56 and was educated in the 
common schools. He was clerk of 
what is now the Second National Bank 
of Rockford from '56 to '65. In '65 he 
bought an interest in The Rockford 
Register, which he ran successfully as 
a republican paper until 1874, when he 




EDWARD H. GRIGGS. 



relinquished it and moved to Chicago,, 
where he has since resided. For the 
past ten j^ears he has been connected 
with the western department of the 



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Niagara Fire Insurance company of 
JSIew York. He was secretary of the 
senate in '71, and was a committee 
■clerk in the senate of '69. Was elected 
to the house in '90, and kept tall)' for 
the republicans on the clerk of the 
house during" the long- and exciting 
contest for United States senator in 
'91. He is a quiet man, a hard worker 
in committee and a staunch repub- 
lican. He is married: 

Committees: Insurance, education, en- 
rolled and engrossed bills, fish and game, 
senatorial apportionment. 

Quffin, Washington I., (rep.), Paw 

Paw; grain and coal dealer. Born in 
Carlisle, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1840, and 
moved to Illinois in '69, settling on a 
farm near Mahigin's Grove, Lee coun- 
ty, where he went into the dairy and 
■cheese industry. In '72 the Burlington 
railroad ran a branch through the 
county, and established the town of 
Compton, where Mr. Guffin built an 
elevator, also one at Paw Paw, and 
engaged in the grain business, with 
his home at Compton. Sixteen years 
later he moved to Paw Paw. He was 
educated in the common and select 
schools near his boyhood home, owns 
real estate in Paw Paw and Evanston, 
and is married. He was on the county 
board in '72; but never was on a jury, 
v^^as a witness in court only once, and 
never had a case in court as plaintiff 
or defendant. He is very independ- 




WASHINGTON I. GUFFIN. 

ent in his utterance and a good legis- 
lator. He was nominated for the leg- 
islature by the Lee county convention 
by acclamation. Is always present. 

Committees: Congressional apportion- 
ment, revenue, appropriations, municipal 
corporations, municipal and state indelited- 
ness. 



QuthrJe, Noah H., (rep.), Aledo; 
farmer. Born in Green Co., Pa., 
March 6, 1842, and received a common 
school education. He worked on a 
farm until '61, when he answered the 
summons to arms, enlisting in Co. A, 
7th W. Va. Inf., and served with credit 
for over three years. He was in all 




NOAH H. GUTHRIE. 

the great battles of the Army of the 
Potomac, and was wounded in the 
right leg at Spottsylvania, necessitat- 
ing the removal of eight inches of the 
tibia. It is not apparent in his gait, 
and is regarded as one of the wonders 
of surgery. In Dec. '64, he came to 
Illinois and was appointed to the Illi- 
nois Soldiers' College at Fulton, 
remaining from '67 to '70. He took 
the U. S. census for his county in '70; 
was elected sheriff the same year, and 
re-elected in '72, and has farmed most 
of the time since. Is married and 
owns 280 acres of land, all finely im- 
proved. He took the censu s of his 
township in '80 and was elected to the 
house in '92. 

Committees: Mines and mining, live 
stocls and dairying, sanitary affairs, fish 
and game, contingent expenses. 

Hanker, Charles, (rep.), Toledo; con- 
tractor and builder, was born in Wit- 
tenberg, Prussia, May 4, 1843, and 
moved with his father to America in 
'62 settling first in Freeburg, St. Clair 
Co., 111., where he learned the carpen- 
ter trade. He moved to Cumberland 
county in '67 and engaged in the fur- 
niture business. He is married and 
owns considerable city property. He 
has held various minor offices and has 
been chairman of the republican coun- 
ty central committee. Opportunities 
for education were not as plentiful as 



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now, and he received the common 
school education of the time in which 
he was a youth. He is a quiet and 
modest member but watches closeU' 
the moves of the leaders on the floor, 




CHARLES HANKEK. 

and is faithful in eittendance. He is 
a g'ood, reliable representative. 

Comuilttees: Fees and salaries, public 
buildiiij^s, labor and industiial, inannfac 
tures, military. 

lianna, D. Caswell, (rep.), Monmouth; 
farmer and stock raiser. Born in War- 
ren Co., June 8, 1836, and received a 
common school education. In '60 he 
went to Colorado and New Mexico, 
spending- over a year mining-, teaming, 
etc. He returned home and enlisted in 




D. CASWELL HANNA. 



Co. C 91st 111. Inf., in Aug-. '62; was 
elected first lieutenant. Saw his first 
service in Elizabethtown, K3'., where 
the rebel Gen. John Morgan captured 



his command Dec. 2.S, '62. He remained 
in Benton barracks. Mo., on parole 
until June '63, when he wasexchang-ed 
and sent to Vicksburg-, arriving- a few- 
days after the surrender. After a 
scouting service of several weeks he 
reached New Orleans in August, was 
promoted to the command of his com- 
pany, and participated in the principal 
battles of the Arm3' of the Gulf, in- 
cluding Banks' campaig-n to Texas and 
the Rio Grande, winding- up his ser- 
vice in Mobile after taking- part in the 
siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blake- 
ly. He was discharged July 27, '65 
and returned home. Was married Oct. 
17. '66 to Miss Martha E. Heaton, and 
li as a family of five girls and four boys. 
He lived in Henderson county for 
many years and in '69 was elected 
county clerk, and re-elected in '73 ; 
was also mayor of Oquawka one term. 




JAY L. HASTINGS. 

In '76 he moved to Monmouth : is in- 
terested chiefly in agricultural and 
educational measures. 

Committees: 
drainaee. 



Worlds fair, license, farm 



Hastings, Jay L., (rep.), Galesburg-; 
lawyer. Born June 6, 1858, twelve 
miles north of Ottawa, 111. His father 
is now a lumber merchant in Bay City, 
Mich. Mr. Hastings remained on the 
LaSalle county farm until he was 12. 
years old, when his parents moved on 
a Michigan farm. Afterwards he en- 
tered L/ombard University, at Gales- 
Inirg-, maintaitiing- himself by corres- 
]jondin,g for Chicago, St. Louis papers 
and the Associated Press. He gradua- 
ted in '76 and while in school earned a 
flattering- reputation for ability and as 
an orator. He was on The Chicag-o 
Tribune for a time, and then entered 



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the law office of Hon. O. F. Price, and 
in two years was admitted to the bar. 
He earl}' took great interest and be- 
came prominent in local and county 
politics. He was public administrator 
of Knox county for four years and has 
been alderman many years. Marred. 

Committees: Judiciary, municipal corpor- 
ations, county and township organization, 
building and loan associations, elections. 

Hawks, James A., (rep.), Atwood; 
g-rain and lumber dealer. Born in 
Osweg-o, N. Y., July 19, 1847, and edu- 
cated at Falley Seminary, Fulton, N. 
Y., and Hamilton College, graduating 
in '69. He enlisted in the 3d N. Y. 
Art. when but 17 years old, and was 
captured and placed in lyibby prison, 
from which place he was released when 
Gen. Grant captured Richmond. After 
the war he resumed his studies and 
moved to Piatt Co., 111., in '69 and 




JAMES A. HAWKS. 

started in the general merchandise 
business. In '87 he branched off into 
grain and lumber, and has been deal- 
ing in these two ever since. He is 
married and owns 1,280 acres of land. 
He has been supervisor and held vari- 
ous minor offices. He was elected to 
the house in '82 and returned in '92, 
and no man stands higher among his 
colleagues. He has no hobbies, and 
scans closely every measure that 
comes up. He is a good legislator. 

Committees: Banks and banking, finance, 
drainage, claims. 

Hawley, Edgar C, (rep.), Dundee; 
merchant and stock raiser. Republi- 
can leader of the house. Born in Bar- 
rington, 111., Feb. 20, 1850, and was 
educated in the public schools and 
Elgin Academy. Is married. Was 
cashier of the State Grain Inspector's 



office in Chicago for a time, and at 
present carries on a large business at 
Dundee. Was elected to the house of 
representatives in '88, '90, and '92. 
Was the republican caucus nominee 




EDGAE C. HAWLBT. 

for speaker in the present general 
assembly, and as such became the 
party leader and was conceded a chair- 
manship with clerk and room for use 
of republican members He has taken 
an important part in the legislation of 
the general assemblies of which he has 
been a member; is a strong party man 
and a very shrewd politician. 

Committees: Riglits of the minority— the 
steering committee— (chairman) , railroads, 
finance, penal and reformatory, banks and 
banlving, agriculture, live stock and dairy- 
ing, rules. 




EDWARD J. HAYES. 



Hayes, Edward J., (dem.), Chicago; 
merchant. Born in Ansonia, Conn., 
July 9, 1863, and moved to Chicago 
with his parents when four months 



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old. He \Yas educated in the public 
schools and worked in a stove foundry 
for ten years. The first public office 
he has held is the present one. Al- 
thou",--!! one of the 3'oung-est members, 
Mr. Hayes has been complimented by 
places on several important commit- 
tees. Is not married. 

Coiiiniittees: Municipal c-orporatioiis, 
elections, ri-vi'mie, license, retrencliincnt, 
<<xcciitive department, labor and industrial 
affairs. 

* Holtslaw, Daniel W., (dem.). luka; 
farmer. Born in Marion county, Feb. 
5, 1849 ; educated in the county schools. 
Is married and owns 400 acres. 

Coiiiniittees: Visit educational institu- 
tions, (cliairnian), eoiisiressioiial apportit)n- 
ment, ajipropiiations, mines and mining. 

Henning, Edgar L., (dem.), Piano; 
banker and merchant. Born in Ken- 
dall county, April 8, 1849, and educated 
in the common schools, at a commer- 
cial collej^-e and Ann Arbor. He 
started in life on a farm, then beg-an 
clerking-- in a store, and in '75 engag-ed 
in the mercantile line himself, con- 
tintxing- it up to the present da3'. He 
started E. L,. Henning's Bank in '79, 
and it is one of the most substantial 
and safe institutions in the state. He 
is married, and owns 600 acres of land 
besides town and city property. He 
has held various local offices, and has 
been on the board of education for 
nine years, and president of the board 
for four. He is a very industriotts 




EDGAR L. HENNING. 

member, and for his fir.st session is 
well posted on legislative work. He is 
a good democrat and valuable member. 
Coiiiniittees : Executive department (ehaii- 
man), banks ami bankiiiif, appropriations, 
canal river improvement and commerce, 
agriculture, building and loan associations, 
state and municipal Indebtedness. 



Herdman, Alexander B., (dem.). Mor- 
risonville; miller and grain dealer. 
Born in Orange Co., N. Y., Jan. 5, 
1837, and moved to Illinois with his 
parents in '42, settling first in Ran- 
dolph county, where he remained for 
12 years; they he moved to Jersey 
cotmty, remaining tmtil '67; then to 




ALE.VAJSUEK B. HERDMAN. 

Brighton, where he remained until '71, 
and from '71 to the present time he has 
been a resident of Morrisonville and 
engaged in his present business. He 
always voted the democratic ticket. 
Was educated in the common school 
branches in public and select schools, 
and finished his edtication at West- 
minister College, Fulton, Mo. Is mar- 
ried and owns 160 acres in Jersey 
county. Has been connected with 
school offices all his life; has been on 
the board of supervisors for several 
years and was chairman one year and 
has been on town boards and president 
of the same. He desires verj' much to 
see democratic pledges of economy 
and reform fulfilled, and every time 
the opporttinity occurs votes in that 
direction. 

Committees: To visit state charitable in- 
stitutions (chairman), appropriations, 
revenue, county and township organization, 
world's fair, canal and river improvement 
and commerce, state institutions. 

Higgins, Richard T., (rep.), Vanda- 
lia ; banker. Born in Cass count}', 
111., June 9, 1842, and left an orphan 
at the age of 12. When 15 he left the 
farm to make his home with his 
brother-in-law. Dr. F. B. Haller, of 
Vandalia. He took a full academic 
cotxrse at Ttiscarora Academy, Pa., 
and obtained a complete medical edu- 
cation at the Chicago Medical College, 
and Jeffer^^on Medical College. Phila- 



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delphia. He entered the union service 
as a hospital steward and was pro- 
moted on his merits to be assistant 
surgeon. In '64 he returned home and 
entered into partnership with Dr, 




RICHARD T. HIGGINS. 

Haller. Althongh very successful in 
his profession he was compelled to 
abandon it to take care of his large 
business interests. In '75 he was elec- 
ted president of the Farmers and Mer- 
chants National Bank, which place he 
now fills. He is married and owns 
1,500 acres of farm land in addition to 
considerable city real estate. He has 
held various offices of minor import- 
ance; was nominated by acclamation. 
Committees: Railroads, appropriations, 
worlds fair, sanitary affairs. 




JOHN HOLMES. 



Holmes, John, (dem.), Medina; far- 
mer. Born in County Ivondonderry, 
Ireland, June 15, 1824, and emigrated to 
Canada with his parents in '27, stop- 



ping for a short time and moving on 
to New York, where the family 
remained for eight years. In '35 they 
located on a wild piece of land within 
a mile of Mr. Holmes' present home. 
He has farmed all his life, is healthy, 
vigorous, and owns 2,500 acres of mag- 
nificent land — farming has paid under 
his careful guidance, energy and 
thrift. He is married and has a family 
of ten children, and if they carry their 
character in their faces as does their 
father, they can borrow all they want 
without making a note. He received 
an indifferent education in district 
schools. He is popular and respected 
by his neighbors or he would not have 
held office for 32 of the 35 years he has 
lived in Medina township since he was 
21; he was postmaster seven years and 
member of the county board for five 
years, being chairman one term. Mr, 




ARCHIBALD W. HOPKINS. 

Holmes was too modest to permit the 
telling of how he saved Peoria county 
thousands of dollars in the building of 
the new court house in the 70's. 

Committees: Canal and river improvement 
and commerce, public buildings, claims, 
agriculture, soldiers' home, horticulture. 

Hopkins, Archibald W., (rep.), Gran- 
ville, Putnam Co.; farmer. Born 1% 
miles east of Granville, and has lived 
on the same spot ever since, his father 
having settled there fifty-eight years 
ago. He was educated in the public 
schools and at Hillsdale College, Mich. 
Is not married. Hon. Joel W. Hopkins, 
his father, was a republican member 
of the 27th General Assembly, and is 
79 years old. They own and operate a 
great deal of valuable land inPutnain 
and Bureau counties, Mr. Hopkins de- 
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has a record as a leg'islator that will 
bear the closest scrutiny, and is one of 
the hardest workers in the house. In 
'78 he spent five months travelinj,'- in 
Europe, and has visited about every 
point of interest in the west and a 
g-reat deal of the south. He was elec- 
ted to the house in '90 and '92. 

■Coniinittees: Appropriations, siinitary af- 
fairs, military, to visit educational institu- 
tions, worlds fair. 

Johnson, Caleb C, (dem.). Sterling-; 
lawyer. Born on a farm in Whiteside 
county May 23, 1844. Educated in the 
common schools iind spent a term in 
the military acadenn' at Fulton. Ad- 
mitted to practice law in '67 and 
began practice in '69. Was in the army 
as a member of Co. C, 69th Illinois, and 
Co. D, 140th Illinois. Whiteside county 
is overwhelmitig-ly republican, and 
the opportunities for preferment of a 




democrat are few and far between; has 
been a member of the board of super- 
visors, and was deputj' collector of 
internal revenue during- Cleveland's 
administration. He was a deleg^ate to 
the national democratic convention in 
'88. In '85 and '87 was a member of 
the house and was one of the dem- 
ocratic leaders. It was the session of 
'85 that Col. Morrison and Gen. Log-an 
foug-ht for the U. S. senatorship, and 
Mr. Johnson was a firm friend of the 
Waterloo statesman. Is married. 

Committees: Judicial department and 
practice (chairman), rules, steering com- 
mittee, municipal corporations, federal rela- 
tions, miscellaneous subjects, joint commit- 
tee on enrolled and engrossed bills, 
congressional apportionment, county and 
township organization. 

Jones, Alba M., (rep.), Milford; 
merchant. Born in Stockland town- 



ship, Iroquois Co., May 23, 1856, and 
was educated in the common schools 
with finishing- touches at Valparaiso 
University. Is married and well-to-do 
iti this world's troods. He has been a 




Al^ilA M. .JUJSiSS. 

member of the board of supervisors 
for seven years, and on the board of 
education for five years, and was 
chairman of the board in '90-'91. Has 
no hobbies or fancies to work off dur- 
ing- the session, but favors any leg-is- 
lation that is beneficial to the people 
of the state. Is present at every ses- 
sion and is a good representative. 

Committees: World's faii-, roads and 
bridges, building and loan associations, 
military, farm drainage, senatorial appor- 
tionment. 




NOKMAN L. JONKS. 

Jones, Norman L., (dem.), Carroll- 
ton; abstracts and loans. Born in 
Patterson, 111., Sept. 19, 1870, and is 
the "baby" of the general assembly. 



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His father moved his family to Car- 
roUton in '72 and here Mr. Jones was 
■educated in the high school, graduat- 
ing in '88, and completing his studies 
at Valparaiso and West Point Militarj^ 
Academy. He taught school for two 
-winters in Fayette, 111. Is not mar- 
ried, and has not been a voter long 
enough to have a record as a servant 
of the people. Although it is early in 
"the session he gives promise of be- 
coming a useful and influential mem- 
b)er, and is a credit to his constituents, 
liis party and himself. 

Committees: Judicial department, appro- 
priations, education, military, executive de- 
partment, manufactures, library. 

*Johnson, Richard fl., (rep), Levings; 
farmer. Born in Morgan Co., Ky., 
Feb. 24, 1842; educated in common 
schools and served in the Union army 
in Co. A, 22d Ky. Inf. Is married and 
owns 200 acres. 

Committees: Warehouses, world's lair, 
federal relations, miscellaneous. 

Kaiser, Louis, (rep.), Bushnell; re- 
tired merchant. Born in Vacha, King- 
dom of Saxony, July 29, 1841, and in 
""SS emigrated alone when 17 years old 
to Burlington, Iowa, whera he remain- 
ed until April, '61, when he started in 
business for himself in the dry goods 
line at Young America, now Kirkwood, 
111. He remained there until '65, when 
he moved to Bushnell continuing the 
same business until '91, when he 




LOUIS KAISER. 

retired to enjoy the accumulations 
of thirty years' close application to 
business. He went into business for 
himself at 19, was married at 21, and a 
grandfather at 45; is possessed of an 
independent fortune, including 1,600 
acres of land, the fruit of hard work 



and shrewdness. He has been mayor 
of Bushnell for three terms, one term 
on the board of education, and presi- 
dent of the Bushnell fair for several 
years. He received a common school 
education, and is bending his energies 
toward securing a uniform text book 
law for Illinois, and also advocates a 




LAWKENCM KELLX. 

law that permits the payment of 
taxes semi-annually, to benefit the 
farmer. 

Committees; Appropriations, finance, 
warehouses, horticulture, elections. 

Kelly, Lawrence, (dem.), Martins- 
ville; farmer. Born in County West- 
meath, Ireland, Dec. 15, 1837, and on 
the death of his father his mother 
started with him for the new world in 
'48, but she died on the ocean. He 
landed in New Orleans friendless and 
alone and drifted around until '50, 
when he settled in Clark Co., 111., in 
the same school district that is now 
his home. Mr. Kelly has had only a 
fair education. Is comfortable so far 
as this world's goods go, having 
accumulated over 200 acres of fertile 
land by industry, frugality and close 
attention to business. His main 
characteristic is a sturdy spirit of self- 
reliance. Is married. He has repre- 
sented his township in the count)' 
board, and was elected to the house in 
'90 and '92. In the session of '91 he 
stood in the front rank for Palmer for 
U. S. senator; is a conservative and 
careful member, and is very popular 
among his colleagues. 

Committees: Contingent expenses (chair- 
man) , live stock and dairying, agriculture, 
railroads, horticulture, state institutions, 
roads and bridges, executive department, 
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King, William H., (rep.), Chicag-o; 
real estate and loans. Bom in Erie 
Co., N. Y., Feb. 25, 1844, and moved to 
Chicaj^o in Aug'. '68, and has lived 
there ever since. He practicallj' edu- 
cated himself in the common school 
branches. President Lincoln's call 
for troops in '61 aroused his piitriotisni 




wilham h. king. 

and he responded bv enlisting' in 
Co. B, 14th Wis. Inf.", in June, '61, 
and served for nearU' four years, par- 
ticipating- in the battles of Fort 
Donelson, Shiloh (where he was 
wounded in the head and left leg), 
Corinth, luka, Jackson, Vicksburg 
{where he was wounded in the right 
arna), the Red River expedition, and 
was in the campaign from Nashville 
to Savannah with Sherman. He re- 
ceived five g-unshot wounds. Is mar- 
ried. Learned the carpenter's trade 
before the war. He is a 32d degree 
Mason, and past post commander of 
the G. A. R., and has also been treas- 
urer of the Veteran Union League for 
the past eight years. 

Comniittees: Municipal corporations, 
penal and reformatory, insurance, flsh and 
game, executive deijartnient. 

*Kroh, Philip H., (dem.), Anna; 
preacher. Born in Frederick Co., Va., 
Feb. 10, 1824; educated at Woodward 
Colleg-e, Cincinnati, and at the 
Columbus Theolog-ical Seminary; was 
chaplain of the 109th 111. Inf. Fleeted 
county superintendent of schools in 
'63; is married. 

Comniittees: History (chairman), public 
charities, public buildings, manufactures, 
claims, roads and bridges. 

Kent, William E., (rep.), Chicag-o; 
real estate. Born in County Cork, 
Ireland, Jan. 6, 1861, and emig-rated 



with his parents to Middletown, Conn., 
in '64. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools of Connecticut, working 
on the farm meantime. He moved to 
Chicago in '81; learned the carpenter's 
trade and followed it for two years. 
Then he went into the Custom House 
as clerk under Jesse Spaulding-, re- 
maining- for another two years, and 
was deputy coroner of Cook county 
for four 3'ears. He studied civil eng-i- 
neering- and took contracts for sinking- 
mines and erecting- shafting-s, and 
other work in that connection. He 
was in this line when he lost his eye- 
sig-ht in Feb. '92, a man who was crazy 
drunk blazing away at him with both 
barrels of a shot-g-un. To the surprise 
of everyone he recovered, but lost both 
eyes. Since then he has dabbled in 
real estate to some extent. He has 
always been very active in republican 
politics, and is one of the shrewdest 
republican workers in Cook county. 
He was deleg'-ate to national republican 
conventions in '84 and '88, and alter- 
nate-at-larg'-e in '92; has been on the 
Cook county committee for niatiy years 
oif and on. He was a member of the 
house in '89. 

Committees: Corporations, mmiicipal cor- 
porations, warehouses, license, retrench- 
ment. 

Kwasigroch, John A,, (dem.), Chi- 
cag-o; real estate. Born in Polish 
German^' Jan. 18, 1866 — was the second 




WILLIAM K. KEJSX. 

young-est member of the 37th g-eneral 
assembU', and was re-elected to the 
present legislature by an increased 
majority. Moved to Chicago in '71 and 
educated in the St. Stanislaus Kostka 
parish school. After the death of his 
father was employed as messeng-er by 



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the American District Telegraph com- 
pany, and is now engaged in the real 
estate business. He was one of the 
"101" who stood by Gen. Palmer from 
start to finish without flinching- in '91, 





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JOHN A. KWASRiKOCH. 

and had several important committee 
assignments. Is very prominent in 
,Cook county politics; is not married. 

Committees: Corporations, warehouses, 
sanitary affairs, printing, miscellaneous sub- 
jects, license, world's fair. 

Langhenry, Qodfred, (rep.), Chi- 
cago; lawyer. Born in Chicago April 
1, 1861, and has lived in the metropolis 
all his life. Was educated in the com- 
mon schools, and at the ag-e of 15 went 
into the wholesale house of Marshall 




GODFRED LANGHENin 



Field & Co., where he remained until 
he was 29, being promoted from stock 
boy to charge of a section of the no- 
tion department. During the last two 



years he was there he attended even- 
ing classes in the Chicago College of 
Law, graduated in June, '90, and im- 
inediately began practicing his pro- 
fession, devoting himself exclusively 
to civil business, and has had more 
than ordinary success. He is also 
secretary-treasurer of the Eagle Ivitho- 
graphing Co., one of the largest con- 
cerns in Chicago; is married. 

Committees: Kailroads, judiciary, muni- 
cipal corporations, executive department, 
libraries, steering committee. 

Leavitt, Thomas N., (rep.), Maroa; 
merchant and banker. Born in Rock- 
ingham county, N. H., October 6, 1838, 
and moved to Peoria with his parents 
in '44, and to Maroa in '61, rented a 
farm and settled down. The call for 
troops aroused his martial ardor and 
he enlisted in Co. C, 66th 111. Inf., and 
after three years' hard service he 




THOMAS N. LEAVITT. 

returned to the plow and sickle. After 
two years' farm work he started a 
grocery store in Maroa, and gradually 
added farm implements and other 
lines; then went into the lumber and 
coal business, and in '91 assisted in 
organizing the State Bank of Clinton, 
of which he is president; is also presi- 
dent of the Leavitt & Oglevee Co., 
dealers in farm implements and lum- 
ber. For a few months he was a fire- 
man on the first railroad that ran 
into Peoria — the present Peoria divis- 
ion of the Rock Island. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools and finished 
at the Northern Illinois institute, then 
a thriving institution at Henry. Is 
married, and besides bank stock, etc., 
and real estate, owns 1,000 acres of 
land; was postmaster of Maroa for 17 



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years, and has been supervisor and 
chairman of the Macon county board. 

C'oniniitiot's: Kevenue, warehouses, 

banks and banking, manufactures, misi-el- 
laneous. 

*Lewis, Albert W., (rep.)- Harris- 

burj,"-; lawyer. Born Nov. 30, 1856, in 
Clinton Co., C). Educated at Wihnini,^- 
ton (().) Collef,''e and was admitted to 
the bar in '82. Is married, and has 
held minor offices — city attorney', 
state's attorney, etc. 

Coniniittees: Judicial department, fees and 
salaries, building; and loan associations, 
con/jfressional ai)p()iti()nmciit. 

Lyman, William H., (dem.), Clii- 
caj^o; contractor. Born in Chicaj^^o 
June 27, 1861, and was educated in the 
public schools of that city. He after- 
wards traveled four years for M. 
Shields & Co. Is married. He is now 
a partner with his father as a con- 
tractor, and they do a larg-e and profit- 
able business. He was elected to the 
g'eneral assenibU' in '88, '90, and was 
returned in '92 by an increased major- 
ity. In the session of '91 he partici- 
pated in the stirrinjf scenes incident 
to the election of Gen. Palmer to the 
U. S. Senate, and risked his life for 
many days in order to cast his vote in 
the joint assembly, having been car- 
ried into the house in an invalid's 
chair. He pays particular attention 
to the wants of the laborini;- man. and 




WILLIAJl H. LVMAN. 

in '91 had charg-e in the house of the 
bill to prevent non-union cigar fac- 
tories using union labels or imitations 
thereof, which became a law. 

Committees: Municipal corporations 

(chairman), railroads, fees and salaries, 
labor and industrial affairs, libraries, con- 
gressional apportionment. 



flcQee, J. Park, (dem.), Tuscola; 
physician and stock raiser. Born in 
Clark Co., Ind., Jan. 5, 1848, and 
uK^'ed to Douglas county in '74 and 
has been there ever since. He was 
educated in the public schools and at 
Wabash college. His medical educa- 
tion was obtained in Cincinnati. Rush 




■I. I'AUK M <;ee. 

Medical College conferred a compli- 
mentary degree on him for services 
rendered the medical profession in the 
legislative session of '85. When only 
16 years of age he enlisted in the 
army as a private in Co. K, 137th Ind. 
Inf. Is not married, owns 350 acres of 
land, and is extensively engaged in 
raising trotting horses. He has been 
nominated to the house three times — 
every year that Cleveland ran for 
president found Dr. McGee on the 
democratic ticket for representative — 
and he was elected ever)' time, and 
served on the appropriations commit- 
tee eeich session. 

Committees: lUiildinji and loan associa- 
tions ("chairman), appropriations, educa- 
tion, warehouses, tinance, to visitpenal and 
reft)rmatoi-y institutions. 

*r\cClure, Samuel H., (dem.), Eureka; 
farnrer. Born in Danville, 111., Nov. 
2, 1827; educated in common schools; 
was in the mercantile business fourteen 
years. Is married, and owns 800 acres. 
He has held various township offices. 

Committees: County and township organi- 
zation, public charities, roads and bridges, 
farm drainage, horticulture. 

ricGinley, James E., (dem.), Chi- 
cago; plumber. Born in Chicago 
March 6, 1866, and educated at a 
Catholic parochial school and the 
West Division High School, graduat- 
ing from the latter. He learned his 



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father's trade; is a member of the firm 
of J. McGinley & Sons, plumbers. He 
is a young man with a bright political 
future before him. Was one of the 
first to be elected on the ward coinmit- 




JAMES E. M'GINLET. 

tee under the new constitution of the 
Cook County Democracy. Is not mar- 
ried. Was elected to the house by a 
labor constituency, and pays especial 
attention to their wants; he also advo- 
cates any legislation that will compel 
the railroads to elevate their tracks 
in Chicago, and has a bill in the house 
which will accomplish that result. 

Committees: Corporations, license, sani- 
try affairs, libraries, retrenchment. 

Mclnerney, flichael, (dem.), Chi- 
cago; mantifacturer. Born in Ireland 




MICHAEL M'INERNEY. 

Feb. 2, 1857, and moved to Chicago 
"when 14 years old. Received a com- 
mon school education and has always 
teen known as one of the working 



democrats of Cook county. He 
amassed a fortune by shrewd opera- 
tions in real estate, and is secretary- 
treasurer of one of the largest brick 
manufactories in the state. He has 
been collector of the Town of L^ake. 
Is married. He was elected to the 
house in '90 and re-elected in '92. In 
the first session he took an active 
interest in the election of Gen. Paltner 
to the senate, and contributed not a 
little to the general's success. Mr. 
Mclnerney has been a leader in both 
sessions. 

Committees : Enrolled and engrossed bills 
(chairman), warehouses, corporations, 
penal and reformatory institutions, munici- 
pal corporations, banks and banking, live 
stock and dairying, loan and homestead 
associations, senatorial apportionment, 
steering committee. 

ricKinlay, Robert L., (dem.), Paris; 
lawyer. The democratic leader in the 




EGBERT L. Jl'KlNLAY. 

house. Born in Cincinnati July 14, 
1839, and moved to Paris in '68. He 
was educated in the common schools 
of Cincinnati, gradviating in the high 
school, and spent some time at the 
Annapolis naval academy. Obtained 
his legal education at the Cincinnati 
Law School, graduating in '61, being 
admitted to the bar the same year. He 
was captain of Co. A, 59th, and adju- 
tant of the 22d O. Inf.; saw hard ser- 
vice in West Virginia and west Ten- 
nessee. Returning from the army he 
took up the practice of his profession, 
and is regarded as one of the most suc- 
cessful lawyers in Eastern Illinois. Is 
married and owns considerable prop- 
erty in Paris. He was city attorney of 
Paris for many years, and was elected 
to the house in '76, '78, '86 and '92. 
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state in '84, as democratic candidate 
for attorne3'-g"eneral, and ran a hope- 
less race aj^eiinst J. G. Cannon for con- 
gress in '88. He is one of the strong-est 
men in the house, and as chairman of 
the committee on apjiropriations 
has charg-e of that important subject 
in the house. 

Committees: Appropriations (chairman), 
steering eomniittee (chairman), rules, judi- 
ciary, municipal corporations, joint rules, 
education, tinance, fcdci'al relations, county 
and tt)wnslilp organization. 

*McCrone, George C, (rep.), Quincy; 
hiwyer. Born near Hartford, Conn., 
Aug-. 22, 1857, and spent two years as 
a western cattle herder; educated at 
Dartmouth Colleg^e and Ann Arbor. 
Elected to the house in '90 and '92. Is 
married. 

Committees: Judiciary, municipal cor- 
porations, claims, reti enchment. 

*r\cMurdy, Robert, (rep.), Chicag-o; 
lawyer. Born in Frankfort, Ky., 
March 8, 1860, and received a coUeg^iate 
education. Is married. 

Connnittees: Judiciary, municipal cor- 
porations, elections, congressional appor- 
tionment, M'orld's fair. 

McKenzie, John C, (rep.), Elizabeth; 
lawyer. Born in Woodbine township, 
Jo Daviess Co., Feb. 18, 1860. He re- 
ceived a common school education and 
studied law with Judg^e W. T. Hodson, 
of Galena, and was admitted to prac- 
tice in '89. He worked on a farm 
when not at school in his youth. He 




JOHN C. MKENZIK. 

has practiced his profession since '89 
and is also interested in the shipping- 
of live stock, in which he is exten- 
sively eng-ag-ed. He has been super- 
visor and has held various minor 
oflfices. Is married and is in comforta- 
ble circumstances. Mr. McKenzie is 



not a silent member of the house. Nor 
does he make many speeches — he fills 
a mean between the two extremes. 

Committees: Roads and bridges, insur- 
ance, tish and game, miscellaneous subjects, 
judicial department, printing. 

McKnight, Sargeant, (rep.), Girard; 
real estate. Born in Macoupin Co.,. 




SAKGKANT M KNIGHT. 

111., Jan. 6, 1844; parents were Vir- 
g-inians. He was educated in common 
schools, and enlisted as a private in 
Co. H., 122d 111. Inf. in Aug-., '62. Was 
elected first serg-eant and promoted to 
second lieutenant Dec. 31, '62. Served 
as inspector on the staff of Col. Hicks, 
commanding post of Paducah, Ky.,. 
and participated in the repulse of Gen. 
Forrest on Fort Anderson in March, 
'64. Later he served as provost mar- 
shal of the city of Paducah. In Dec. 
'64, he was appointed aide-de-camp on 
the staff of Gen. Garrard, commanding- 
second division, 16th army corps, and 
participated in the battle of Nashville 
Dec. 15-16, '64. Promoted to captain by 
brevet by the presidenf'f or g-allant and 
meritoriotis services during- the cam- 
paign against the city of Mobile and 
defenses"; was mvistered out of service 
in July, '65, and rettirned to Girard, en- 
gaging- in the dry goods business and 
the manufacture of woolen goods, and 
remained in active business until '89. 
In May, '66, was married to Miss Vir- 
g'-inia A. Boggen. Served as member 
of the board of supervisors of Macou- 
pin countj^; for four A'ears was captain 
in the 5th regiment, I. N. G.; was aide- 
de-camp on the staff of Gov. Fifer 
with rank of colonel. He is past com- 
mander of Luke Mayfield post, G. A. 
R., and was representative from Illi- 
nois to the national encampment at 



LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



Boston; in '93 was ag^ain selected — as a 
delegate-at-large — to the national en- 
campment. "Was aide-de-camp on the 
staff of Gens. Veazey and Palmer, com- 
manders-in-chief, G. A. R. He was 
chosen minority candidate for repre- 
sentative from the 38th district without 
opposition. 

Committees : Steeringcommittee,railrof,ds, 
county Mild township organizatioii, live 
stocK and dairying, claims, retrenchment, 
senatorial apportionment. 

ricMillan, James T., (dem.), Jack- 
sonville; lawyer. Born on a farm 
near Spring-field Jan. 27, 1840, and 
when 13 years old his father moved on 
a farm near Jacksonville, permitting- 
Mr. McMillan to attend the Jackson- 
ville schools. He graduated from the 
hig-h school while Hon. Newton Bate- 
man was principal. Then he sjetit 
three years in Illinois College and one 
year in the literar}^ department of Ann 
Arbor Univer^itj^ He graduated from 
Union College, New York, in '63, and 
took a term of medicine at Columbia 
College and eight months at Bellevue 
Hospital. He was one of a number 
who volunteered to g-o to the battle 
field of AntietaiTL and care for the sick 
and wounded, but the labor was too 
arduous and he had to g-ive it up. Still 
thirsting- for the highest medical edu- 
cation, he returned to Ann Arbor for 
another term and graduated in medi- 
cine. But he discovered that he could 




JAMES T. M MIL LAN. 

not stand the night work and hard life 
of a physician, so he quit it and took 
up the law, and after g-raduating at 
Ann Arbor located in Detroit, remain- 
ing about a year, and then he returned 
to Jacksonville, where he has been ever 
since. He gives a g-reat deal of atten- 



tion to 600 acres of land owned by his 
wife and himself. He is married and 
a member of the g-rang-e org-anization. 
Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
ment, elections, banks and banking, public 
buildings, roads and bridges. 

Martin, John S., (rep.), Bridg-eport; 
teacher. Born Oct. 29, 1861, on aLaw- 




JOHN S. MAKTIN. 

rence county farm, and educated in 
the common schools. Attended the 
Central Normal Colleg-e of Indiana, 
paying his tuition by teaching. This 
illustrates the character of the man, 
full of pluck and energy. Never held 
an office before and did not seek the 
present place in the house. Is married. 
He is a strong- advocate of compulsory 
education and is decidedly in favor of 
state uniformity of text books. Mr. 
Martin is always present and is a 
useful and able legislator. 

Committees: Education, printing, libra- 
ries, history-geology and science, flsh and 
game, state and municipal indebtedness. 

Merritt, Edward L., (dem.), Spring-- 
field; journalist. Was born in New 
York City. While yet a child his parents 
moved to a farm near Lebanon, 111. 
Schools were of a poor quality then, 
and he only attended one for twelve 
months, being apprenticed in the print- 
ing business at the ag-e of 11. The 
family removing- to Salem, the father 
started The Advocate, Edward L*. g-o- 
ing with him, and becoming a g-ood 
practical printer. For about four 
3'ears he was civil eng-ineer on the O. 
& M. R. R. In '58 he boug-ht an inter- 
est in The Salem Advocate, and edit- 
ed it until '65, when he bought an in- 
terest in The Springfield Register. 
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and made a great reputation for the 
paper and himself throughout the 
union. He was a member of the state 
committee for twelve years at this 
time, and was secretary for several 
campaig-ns. In '74 and '76 he was prac- 
tically the manag-er of the democratic 
campaign. He has alwaj's been in ad- 
vance of his party on the tariff, being 
practically a free trader, taking that 
position in the state convention of '71, 
and succeeding after a hard fight in 
having a plank adopted that was clear 
and emphatic. In '66 President John- 
son appointed him pension agent at 
Springfield, but the senate rejected 
him on account of his political views; 
he was reappointed twice and rejected 
each time. He was elected to the 
house in '90 and again in '92, and was 
a leader and on the steering committee 







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EDWAUI) L. MEHKITT. 

in each. His family is one of the most 
prominent in the state in politics, jour- 
nalism and war. Is married. 

Coimuittees: Insuiaiife (ehuiriiian) , edu- 
cation, appropriations, military, world's 
fair, agricultiuf, sen itorial apportionment, 
penal and reformatory, steering eommittee. 

May, Stephen D., (dem.), Chicago; 
lawyer. Born in Balvidere, 111., June 
3, lS-61, and educated at Illinois Col- 
lege. Jacksonville, and Ann Arbor, 
g-raduating- from the latter in '84. > He 
was admitted to practice in '86 and has 
attained a commanding position at the 
Chicago bar. He is not married. He 
v^as elected to the house in '90 from a 
strong republican district and was re- 
turned last fall. Mr. May was one of 
Gov. Palmer's staunchest friends 
during the memorable senatorial con- 
test of '91, and in the same session in- 
troduced and championed with energy- 



a bill giving the laboring people a 
Saturday half-holiday, which failed of 
passage throug-h no fault of Mr. May. 
He is very active in important legisla- 
tion and closely watches measures per- 




STEPHEN D. MAT. 

taining- to the interests of his con- 
stituents. 

Committees: License (oliairman) , judi- 
ciary, judicial department, finance, building 
and loan associations, insuiance, contingent 
expenses, congressic)nal apportionment. 

Meyer, Charles F., (rep.), Kirkland; 
farmer. Born in Hanover, Germany, 
Jan. 1, 1843, and in '60 emig-rated to 
the New World, coming direct to the 
garden spot, northern Illinois. En- 
listed in Co. A, 153d 111. Inf. He 




CHAULES F. JIEYEi;. 



taught school at various points in 
northern Illinois for several years, and 
in '67 commenced farming, is at it j^et 
and has made it pay, for he owns 345 



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acres of splendid land in DeKalb 
county. Is married and has held 
several town and school offices. Mr. 
Meyer is a quiet member, but posts 
himself on every measure that comes 
up and votes intelligently. 

Committees: Revenue, public charities, 
mines and mining, congressional apportion- 
ment. 

Meyer, Ernst, (dem.), Deer Plain, 
Calhoun Co.; farmer. Born Nov. 26, 
1831, in Prussia, and received his edu- 
cation at the Berlin High School. He 
came to the United States in '60 and 
worked as a laborer on the Delaware 
& Lackawanna railroad; also on a 
farm. In June, '62, he enlisted in the 
Army of the Potomac, and served 
until the close of the war. He partici- 
pated in the battles of the Wilderness, 
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Pe- 
tersburg. Was wounded at Ream's 
Station, Va., and limps in conse- 




BRNST MBTEK. 

quence. He never applied for a pen- 
sion. He moved to Calhoun Co., 111., 
in July, '65, and engaged in farming. 
He was county commissioner four 
years, and as a school director had his 
district adopt the system of providing 
the school children with necessary 
text books free. As a member of the 
house in '91 he helped elect Senator 
Palmer, and on no roll call was he 
"absent or not voting." In May, '76, 
he married Miss Amelia Dinkier, has 
three sons and lives on his extensive 
farm of 2,800 acres at Deer Plain. 

Committees: Soldiers' home (chairman), 
canal-river improvement and commerce, 
education, military, drainage, fish and 
game, liorticulture. 

Miller, Joseph E., (dem.), Belleville; 
farmer and stock raiser, was born in 
St. Clair county June 8, 1842. He was 



educated in the common schools and at 
the Christian Brothers University, St. 
lyouis, graduating in '59. He has al- 
ways been a farmer, is married and 
owns 250 acres of splendid land. He 




JOSEPH K. MILLEK. 

was a member of the county board for 
two terms and has held various minor 
offices. He inaugurated his work in 
the house by defeating the aim of a 
number of the older members, who 
sought to kill the dairy commissioner 
bill, which is in the interest of the 
farmer and dairyman. He is particu- 
larly strong in committee work. 

Committees: Fees and salaries, live stock 
and dairying, drainage, fish and game, sol- 
diers' home, world's fair, horticvilture. 




JOHN MEYER. 



rieyer, John, (rep.), Chicago; law- 
yer. Born in the Kingdom of Hol- 
land Feb. 27, 1852, emigrated to Chi- 
cago in '67 and has lived there ever 



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since. Received his education at the 
Northwestern University and the 
Union Colleg"e of Law, yraduatinj^ in 
'79 ; was admitted to the bar the same 
year, and has had a very successful 
practice every since, almost exclus- 
ively in civil cases. Is married and 
was elected to the house in '86, '88, '92. 
He is one of the republican leaders in 
the present house; is a quick, forcible 
speaker and a splendid parliamen- 
tarian. In the session of '89 he handled 
the measure crediting- the Chicag'o 
Sanitary District for drainag-e pur- 
poses, and to his skillful g'eneralship 
is attributed to a great extent the suc- 
cess of the measure. 

Committees: Judiciary, corporations, in- 
surance, elections, senatorial apportion- 
ment, steering committee. 

Mitchell, Benjamin Marion, (dem.), 
Chicayo; printer and publisher. Born 
in (juincy Jan. 30, 1869. When he was 
seven months old his parents moved to 
Chicag'o, and he was educated in the 
public schools of that city, g'raduating- 
from the Brown school on the West 
Side. Is a member of the Cook 
County Democratic, the Chicag"o 
Bachelors and County Democracy 
Marching clubs. He has worked for 
the Western Union, for Marshall 
Field, Schlesing-er & Mayer and Pard- 
ridge; was chief bundle wrapper in 
Coutant & Co.'s, filled the same posi- 
tion and was promoted timekeeper in 




BENJAMIN M. MITCHELL. 

the Bee-Hive. Then he was general 
city agent for the Cable Cigar Co. 
He was elected at 19 secretary of the 
regular Thirteenth Ward Democratic 
Club, which he held until '90, when he 
was made president of the club, and 
has taken an active part in all cam- 



paigns. Is not married. Lives at 75 
Columbia place, near Garfield Park, 
and is a good speaker. 

Committees: Municipal corporations, 
revenue, warehouses, fees and salarieSv 
))uildinfd; and loan associations, military, 
miscellaneous, printin;^. 

Moore, William A., (dem.), Morton; 
farmer. Born in Todd Co., Ky., Nov^ 




WILLIAM A. MOORE. 

1, 1839, and when but seven years old. 
his parents moved to Illinois and set- 
tled in Woodford county, near the 
present site of Eureka. There he spent 
his youth and obtained an education, 
the opportunities for which in that 
early day were exceedingly limited. 
However, pluck and energy with suffi- 
cient ambition to attract spurred him 
on, and by hard knocks he learned the 
common school branches. He worked 
in daylight and studied by the light of 
a tallow dip. At the age of 19 he ob- 
tained a certificate to teach. In '62 he 
married, and in '63 moved to Morton 
township, where he now resides on his. 
farm ; he owns 400 acres of as good 
land as the sun ever shone upon. He 
has always been a stalwart democrat, 
and has been honored with many minor 
offices, and was a member of the house 
in '77, declining a unanimous renomi- 
nation in '78 on account of sickness in 
his family. He is one of the best rep- 
resentatives of the agricultural class 
in the general assembly and his former 
experience has been of value to him 
this session. The interests of the ag- 
riculturist are carefully guarded by 
him. Mr. Moore is always in his seat 
during sessions. 

Committees : Horticulture (chairman), 
canal-rivei improvement and commerce, 
penal and reformatory, state institutions^ 
revenue, federal relations, claims, drainage 



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Morris, Freeman P., (dem.), Wat- 
seka; lawyer. Born in Cook county, 
March 19, 1854, and when 20 years old 
moved to Watseka. He received his 
education in Chicag"o and his legal 
education at the Union I^aw College; 
"was admitted to the bar in '74. Is 
married, and owns a handsome home 
with splendid appointments in Wat- 
seka besides other valuable real estate. 
April 21, '93, Gov. Altgeld appointed 
Mr. Morris on his staff with the rank 
of colonel. He has held various local 
offices and was elected to the house in 
'84, '88 and '92, and has had a great 
•deal to do in moulding legislation at 
■every session. He is one of the best 
lawyers in this session, so prolific in 
g-reat legal minds, and possesses an 
•easy, graceful delivery in speaking that 
is pleasing and effective. Is chairman 




FREE. p. MORKIS. 

of the caucus, is one of the democratic 
leaders and is on the steering com- 
mittee. 

Committees: Judiciary (chairman), judi- 
cial department, ibunicipal corporations, 
insuraace, license, world's fair, federal re- 
lations, rules, joint rules, enrolled and en- 
grossed bills, steering committee. 

riounts, William L., (dem.), Carlin- 
ville; lawyer and banker, was born in 
Carlinville Aug. 31, 1862, and educated 
at Blackburn University, graduating 
in the scientific course. Is married and 
owns and controls 2,000 acres of farm 
and coal land. He has held the offi- 
ces of city treasurer, city attorney 
and is the present mayor of Carlin- 
ville. He was secretary of the dem- 
ocratic committee of Macoupin county 
for eight years, and stands high in 
the estimation of his constituents. 
He believes that pledges are not made 
by politicians and parties to be 



broken, and insisted on the house or- 
dering an investigation of the state 
auditor's and state treasurer's offices, 
carrying the point against very influ- 
ential members — republican and dem- 




WILLIAM L. MOUNTS. 

ocratic. He believes all interest should 
be covered into the treasury. 

Committees: State and municipal indebt- 
edness (chairman), municipal corporations, 
judiciary, insurance, state institutions, fees 
and salaries, military, federal relations. 

Muir, Robert H., (rep.), Clyde, Cook 
Co.; clerk. Born in Glasgow, Scot- 
land, April 17, 1848, and emigrated 
with his parents to America in '50, 
stopping first at Syracuse; then in 
tnrn his father moved to Quebec, 
Stratford and Naponee, Canada, 




EOBERX H. MUIK. 



finally settling in Chicago in '66. He 
received a good education in the com- 
mon schools and at Naponee Univer- 
sity, graduating in '65; he also grad- 



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uated from the Union College of Law, 
Chicago, in '79, and was admitted to 
practice in '81. He did not practice 
long, however. He has been trustee of 
the town of Cicero, president of the 
school board and school trustee, and 
has been a deputy clerk in the Cook 
county circuit clerk's office fourteen 
years, a place which he now fills to 
the satisfaction of those with whom 
he comes in contact. He is n careful 
and painstaking legislator, and exam- 
ines all measures that come up. Is 
married. 

("'oininittees: Senatorial apportionment, 
lifcnse, warehouses, lahor and industrial 
affairs, agrieulture, judieial department. 

riuIHgan, Joseph H., (dem.), Kewa- 
nee; railroad agent. Born in Ken- 
tucky Sept. 12, 1855, and a 3'ear later 
his parents moved to Young America, 
afterwards Kirkwood, 111., where he 
received what education he has in the 
public schools. Is married and began 
life as a farm hand, quitting this to 
work as laborer on the present Rock 
Island branch of the Burlington road ; 
then he worked on a section for sever- 
al years, and got a job switching in the 
Biggsville yards in '73. Here he picked 
up telegraphy and was made night op- 
erator at Biggsville in '76; promoted to 
be agent four years later, transferred 
to Kirkwood, and finally settled in the 
Kewanee office of the Burlington in 
'85. It is one of the most important 




JOSEPH H. MULLIGAN. 

offices on the road in Illinois, standing 
about sixth in volume of business done. 
He strongly advocates a uniform text 
book bill, is always present and votes 
intelligently on all measures. 

Committees: Retrenchment (chairman), 
corporations, building and loan associations, 



labor and indnsti'ial affairs, mines and min- 
ing, world's fair. 

Murdoch, Frank, (rep.), Oneida; 
banker. Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, 
Sept. 2, 1843, and came to America in 
'52 with his parents, stopping first in 
Trumbull Co., O. Moved to Knox Co., 
111., in '57, and settled on a farm near 




FRANK MURDOCH. 

Oneida. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools and farmed until '73, 
when he went into the banking busi- 
ness and has been in it ever since. 
The Exchange Bank of Oneida is 
owned by Anderson & Murdoch. He 
is highly regarded by his neighbors, 
for they elected him alderman for 
eight 3^ears and mayor for four years, 
and he has been a member of the 
school board for six or seven years; 
was chairman of the republican 
county committee for two years. Is 
married. He is a 32d degree Mason; 
been master of his lodge for eight or 
ten years; High Priest of the chapter; 
Past Commander of Galesburg Com- 
mandery No. 8, K. T., and a Past 
Grand in the Odd Fellows. 

Committees: Banks and banking, finance, 
insurance, live stock and dairying, military- 
affairs. 

Murphy, Joseph L., (dem.), Pinck- 
neyville; grain dealer. Born on a 
Perry county farm, Dec. 31, 1840, and 
educated in the public schools. Is 
married and owns about 600 acres of 
land. He began life in the mercantile 
business, and afterwards dealt in lum- 
ber and grain. He finally dropped 
the lumber business and added real 
estate and has been very successful in 
it as well as in his grain business. He 
has been mayor of Pinckneyville for 
the past fifteen or sixteen years and is. 



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mayor at this time. In September, 
'62, he enlisted in Co. D, 110th 111. Inf., 
and most of his fig"hting was done in 
Palmer's Fourteenth Corps. He was 
in the campaig-n before Atlanta and 




JOSEPH L. MURPHY. 

the march to the sea of Sherman's le- 
g^ions. He went in as a private and 
-came out a captain, being promoted 
"for g-allant conduct. He has no pet 
•schemes to foster, but is anxious to do 
his share towards the general good of 
the people. Mr. Murphy is one of the 
Tnost reliable representatives. 

Committees: Federal relations (cliair- 
iQian), revenue, railroads, penal and re- 
formatory, public charities, state and muni- 
■cipal indebtedness, senatorial apportion- 
ment. 




GEORGK MURRAY. 



Murray, George, (rep.), Elmira, 
'Stark Co.; farmer. Born in Rexbury- 
shire, Scotland, May 1, 1840, and moved 
to America with his parents in 'S3, 



coming direct to Stark county, and 
has been there ever since. He received 
a common school education and is mar- 
ried. He began farm work when 14 
years old and has been on a farm ever 
since, and owns over 800 acres of Stark 
county land. He has held several 
township and school offices, and is a 
typical farmer. He is willing that the 
democrats shall have free swing to in- 
stitute the "reforms" they have in- 
sisted were necessary. Mr. Murray is 
always in his seat and informs himself 
as to the merits of all bills. 

Committees: Canal-river improvement 
and commerce, labor and industrial affairs, 
drainage, horticulture. 

Myers, William H., (dem.), Terre 
Haute, Henderson Co.; blacksmith- 
farmer. Born in Jennings Co., Ind., 
Feb. 28, 1849. The family moved first 
to Ivcwis Co., Mo., thence to Terre 
Haute, 111. At the age of 7 years he 
met with an accident that crippled 




WILLIAM H. MYERS. 

him for life, but with indomitable 
energy and a pluck that has been 
a characteristic of his life, he pro- 
ceeded to carve out a future. He was 
educated in the common schools and is 
in independent circumstances. He 
was elected to the house in '90 and re- 
elected in '92, running ahead of his 
ticket each time, and no man in Hen- 
derson county is more popular. He is 
a good servant of the people and his 
two terms in the house have demon- 
strated the fact that no mistake was 
made in his election. 

Committees: Agriculture (chairman), 
corporations, live stock and dairying, labor 
and industrial, drainage, contingent ex- 
penses, farm drainage, congressional appor- 
tionment. 



LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



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*Noling, Lars M., (rep.), Rockford; 
real estate. Born in Sweden May 4, 
1843, and emigrated to Rockford in '64. 
Common school education. Married. 

Coniniitteos: History, uianufuctures, 
federal relations, horticulture. 

Nohe, Augustus W., (rep.), Chicag-o; 
broker. Born in Baden, Germany, 
Nov. 27, 1846, and came to this country 
in '51. He .settled In Freeport, where 
he remained until '75, when he moved 
to Chicago. He received a common 
school education and is married. He 
was elected to the house in '90 and re- 
turned in '92 bj' an increased majority. 
He has represented his ward in the 
Chicag-o city council. During- the war 
he was connected with the military 
teleg-raph and did valuable service for 
the union armies. He was with Gen. 




AUGUSTUS W. NOHE. 

Scholield for a time and joined Sher- 
man at Goldsboro, N. C, finishing his 
field service at Raleigh. The govern- 
ment required his aid after the war, 
however, and he was sent to Nash- 
ville, Tenn., where he remained on 
dut3' for Uncle Sam until '67, when he 
was mustered out of the volunteer ser- 
vice, being probably the last war tel- 
eg-rapher to retire. Then he eng-ag-ed 
in the same profession in Chicago, and 
is now in the brokerag-e business. He 
is one of the most forcible and agg'-res- 
sive members of the house, and is en- 
deavoring to pass his bill removing the 
$5,000 limit for damag-es for death bj' 
railroad accidents. He also strong-ly 
favors municipal control of gas and 
electric lighting plants, and has a bill 
before the house that will accomplish 
that object. 

Oonniiittees: Corporations, municipal cor- 
porations, banks and bankinj;:, buildlnff and 
loan associations, congressional ap'^'^irtion. 



O'Connell, Edmund, (rep.), Bloom- 
ington; lawver. Born in Franklin 
Co., N. Y., Nov. 20, 1848. Educated in 
the district schools and at Franklin 
Academy, Malone, N. Y., and coming- 




EDMUND O CONNELL. 

to Illinois in '71 he taught school and 
studied law until '74, when he was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He began the prac- 
tice of his profession in Bloomington, 
where he settled in '73, and is regarded 
as one of the best lawyers in Central 
Illinois, being- particularly strong- as a 
jury pleader. He is a leader in the 
present house, as he was in the last 
g-eneral assembly; is strong- in debate, 
an eloquent, forcible speaker; married. 

Committees: Corporations, education, 
building and homestead associations, elec- 
tions, license, steering conunittee. 




EDWARD .7. NOVAK. 



Novak, Edward J., (dem.), Chicago; 
real estate. Born in Chicag-o Nov. 2, 
1869, and with probably one exception 



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is the young-est member of the g-eneral 
assembly. He was educated in the 
public schools and at the Metropole 
Business College, graduating from the 
latter. He entered the office of the 
county treasurer of Cook county when 
George R. Davis was treasurer and has 
been there ever since, the office now 
being in charg-e of Charles Kern. He 
is an energ-etic worker in Cook county 
politics. This is the first office to 
which he has been elected, but if he 
keeps up the record he has made thus 
far it will not be his last. Is not 
married. Is interested in measures 
that will benefit the laboring people. 

Committees: Manufactures (chairman), 
appropriations, insurance, sanitary affairs, 
world's fair, libraries, history-geology and 
science. 

O'Connor, James, (dem.), Chicago; 
professor of music, was born in Lib- 
erty ville, Lake Co., Illinois, Oct. 2, 
1848, and was educated at the district 
schools. When 19 j^ears old he went 
to Chicago and learned the trade of 
mechanical engineer. Afterwards he 
moved to Louisiana and worked at his 
trade there. In '73 Gov. Wm. Pitt 
Kellogg appointed him justice of the 
peace for St. Bernard's Parish, a sub- 
urb of New Orleans. In '74 while 
hunting he lost his sight by an unfor- 
tunate accident and has been totally 
blind ever since. Terrible as is such 
an affliction he did not lose courage. 




JAMES O'CONNOR. 

but battled against the world with 
more persistency than ever. He re- 
turned to Chicago and took up the pro- 
fession of music, which he has followed 
ever since. Through his talents and 
intelligence there has been opened up 
to the blind an entirely new field. He 



is the only blind man in the world that 
has successfully lead an orchestra and 
done his own prompting. His especial 
mission here is to have the legislature 
reappropriate the $100,000 he succeeded 
in g-etting from the leg-islature of '87 
to establish in Chicago an Industrial 
Home for the Blind. This bill he got 




JOSKPH A. O'DONNELL. 

throug-h the session of '87, of which he 
was a member, but Gov. Og-lesby failed 
to appoint a board of triistees and the 
money lapsed into the treasury. He 
is a man of talent and ability outside 
his profession, and takes an active 
part in all legislation. He succeeded 
in securing from the city council of 
Chicago last vear an appropriation of 
$50,000 to establish a Mental and 
Manual Training School for the blind. 
He is married. 

Committees: Public charities, appropria- 
tions, corporations, license, manufactures, 
history-geology and science. 

O'Donnell, Joseph A., (dem.), Chi- 
cag-o; lawyer. Born inBallina, County 
Mayo, Ireland, Dec. 23, 1860. Educated 
in the public schools and began the 
battle of life on his own account when 
11 years old as an employe in a machine 
shop, and was promoted to a foreman- 
ship when 20 years old. Meantime he 
studied law, perfected himself in his 
studies, was admitted to the bar in '87 
and began practice in Chicag-o, where 
he has been very successful. He was 
elected to the house in '88, '90, '92, and 
is one of the most eloquent defenders 
of the rig-hts of the common people in 
the g-eneral asseinbly. Is married. 

Committees: Elections (chairman) , judi- 
ciary, corporations, congressional appor- 
tionment, steering committee, loan and 
homestead associations, and others. 



LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



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pL.O'Loughlin, nichael, (dem.). Senecei; 
farmer. Born in Count}' Clare, Ire- 
land, Nov. 18, 1845. Eniig-rated to 
Wiscotisin with his parents in '49, and 
to LaSalle Co., 111., in '66. He was 
educated in the public schools of Wis- 
consin and taugfht district school in 
Illinois for five years. Is married and 
owns 640 acres of land. He was a su- 
pervisor for twelve years and school 
treasurer for his township for ten years. 
He is one of the quiet, substanti.al men 
of the house, and closely watches leg- 
islation, particularly that which per- 
tains to ag-riculture and the Illinois 
river valley. He was one of the most 
reliable members of the last house, as 
he is of the present. As one of the 
"101" who elected Palmer senator, Mr. 
O'Loughlin never faltered. 

Coininittees: Canal river iinprovenient 
and commerce (chairman), live stock and 




MICHAEL O LODGHLIN. 

dairying, revenue, railroads, agriculture, 
county and township organization, insur- 
ance, farm drainage. 

Paddock, Daniel H., (rep.). Kankakee; 
lawyer. One of the republican leaders 
in the house, was born in Lockport, 111., 
April 5, 1852; is a son of Col. John W. 
Paddock, and of ancestr}- on both sides 
that runs back to the Plymouth colony. 
Educated in Illinois" public schools 
and at the Albany Law School, grad- 
uating in '74, and admitted to the bar 
the same year in Illinois. His home 
has been in Kankakee since Nov. 6, 
'53, where his father was a practicing 
law3'er. Mr. Paddock is prominent in 
republican politics in the state, and a 
man of influence and high standing. 
After two terms as states attorney' for 
Kankakee county, he was elected to 
the legislature in '88, and returned in 



'90 and '92. Is one of the ablest par- 
liamentarians and probably the best 
debater on the republican side. Is 
married. Mr. Paddock has been a 
leader in the three last legislatures. 




DANIEL H. PADDOCK. 

Committees: Judiciary, railroads, penal 
and reformatory, education, insurance, 
rules, steering co'nniiittee. 

Painter, Oscar, (rep.), Metamora; 
stock raiser and farmer. Born in 
Northumberland, Pa., March 10, 1846, 
and moved with his parents to Wood- 
ford Co., 111., in '48, and has been there 
ever since. Ten years of his life were 
spent teaching school, and the balance 
farming and stock raising. He was 
educated in the common schools and is 
not married. He stands high where 




OSCAR PAINTER. 



he is best known, for in a race for the 
shrievalitj' once he ran several hun- 
dred ahead of his ticket, although the 
overwhelming democratic majority 



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"was loo much to overcome. He pays 
particular attention to the needs of 
the farmer, and makes a good repre- 
sentative. He is in comfortable cir- 
ctimstances. 

Committees: Canal-river Improvement 
and commerce, public charities, public 
buildiags, federal relations. 

Payne, William, (rep.), Osborn; far- 
mer. Born in Scott Co., lov^^a, March 
4, 1841, and lived on a farm for the 
first ten years of his life and then 
moved with his parents to Hampton, 
111. Was educated in the public schools, 
and at 18 taught school, leaving that 
occupation to shoulder a musket to 
battle for his country, enlisting in the 
13th 111. Inf., the first 3-year regiment 
in the service. For four j^ears he 
escaped the bullets of the enemy and 
returned to Illinois, spending a year 
in a commercial college, and then 




WILLIAM PAYJSE. 

entered the county treasurer's office, 
Rock Island. From '66 to '70 he was 
deputy sheriif, and was sheriff from 
'70 to '74, and in '74 he moved on a 
farm in Zuma township and has been 
there ever siiice, as farmer, breeder 
and shipper of stock. Is married, and 
owns 540 acres. Fleeted to the house 
in '91 to fill vacancy caused by the in- 
eligibility of W. F. Collins, he was re- 
elected in '92, having been re-nomi- 
nated by acclamation. He is one of 
the most reliable and best members. 

Committees: Canal-river improvement and 
commerce, revenue, federal relations, re- 
trenchment, roads and bridges, farm drain- 
age. 

Parrott, Walters., (dem.) lyitchfield; 
journalist. Born in Raymond, Mont- 
gomery Co., 111., May 4, 1865, and is 
•one of the youngest members in the 
house. He was educated at Blackburn 



University and at the Northern Indi- 
ana Normal at Valparaiso. Is mar- 
ried. Has had considerable experi- 
ence on the country press, and pub- 
lished a paper at Raymond for several 




years. He lived in Raymond for 25 
years, and got every democratic vote 
cast in that township. Although 
young, Mr. Parrott has already familar- 
ized himself with the technicalities of 
legislative life, and his farmer con- 
stituents have no cause to apologize 
for his youth, nor will it be necessary 
to excuse his votes. 

Committees: To visit penal and reforma- 
tory institutions (chairman j, congressional 
apportionment, senatorial apportionment, 
building and loan associations, manufac- 
tvires, roads and bridges, printing. 




BERNARD P. PRESTON. 



Preston, Bernard P., (dem.), Little- 
ton, Schuyler Co.; farmer. Born at 
Ithica, N. Y., March 27, 1838, and came 
to Illinois with his parents in '52. His. 



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education, which commenced on the 
site of Cornell University', was com- 
pleted at St. Louis, after which he 
returned to the Schuyler county farm. 
He has a large farm, and raises the 
best breeds of horses and cattle. Is a 
g-ood representative of the farming 
class in the legislature, advocates 
measures in their interest, and is 
always in his seat. Is married. Was 
elected to the house in '90 and again 
in '92, and has taken an active part in 
all important legislation 

Connnittees: Fai'iii drainage (chairman), 
penvil and reformatory, state institvitions, 
revenue, banks and banking, agriculture, 
live stock and dairying. 

■•Ramey, Thomas T., (rep.). Brooks; 
farmer. Born in Caldwell Co., Ky., 
March 6, 1823, and was educated in dis- 
trict schools. Is married and owns 
200 acres; was elected to the house in 
'72, '88 and '92. 

Ramsey, Charles A., (rep.), Hills- 
boro; retired merchant. Was born 
near Lewistown, Pa., Jan. 8, 1845, and 
was educated in the common schools 
with a short academic course. In Aug., 
'62, when only 17 years old, he left 
school and enlisted in Co. D, 148th 
Penn. Inf.; was appointed sergeant- 
major, and afterwards promoted to 
adjutant of the regiment. After three 
Years of hard service he was mustered 




CHARLES A. RAMSET. 

out and moved to Shelby Co., 111., 
where he remained two years and then 
moved to Irving, Montgomery county, 
where he engaged in the drug business 
until '77. Then he went to Hillsboro 
and engaged in the hardware and agri- 
cultural implement lines until Jan., 
'92, when he disposed of his stock. He 
was made president of the Hillsboro 



National Bank when it was organized 
in '82 and is still at the head of it. He 
never was an office-seeker, but was 
elected three times to the county board 
and was chairman for one term. He 
is present mayor of Hillsboro. Is mar- 
ried and owns 700 acres of land. 

Committees: Reveinie, contingent ex- 
peiises, mines and mining, fi.sli and game. 



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GEORGE KEED. 

Reed, George, (rep.), Belvidere; far- 
mer. Born in Westfield, Mass., May 
26, 1824, and moved to Illinois in '47, 
stopping in Boone county. Afterwards- 
he moved to Winnebago county, re- 
maining there for two 3'ears and then 
returned to Boone. He was educated 
in the common and district schools of 
his youth, gaining more by his own 
efforts than through teachers. He has. 
farmed all his life, and is a good ex- 
emplification of what can be accxDinp- 
lished by pluck, sagacity and industry, 
for he owns 525 acres of as good land 
as the sun ever shone upon. Illustrat- 
ive of the difficulties under which he 
labored it may be said that he patented 
120 acres from the g-overnment and 
had to borrow the money to pay for it,, 
paying 50 per cent, for the loan. He 
is married and credits his wife with 
much of his success. He has held 
nearly everj' township office and was 
supervisor for twelve years, and was 
chairman of the board several limes; 
has been on the county agricultural 
board 25 years and president of it for 
8 3'ears ; was a member of the state 
board of agriculture for two terms ; 
was elected to the house in '90 and re- 
elected in '92. He is interested in two 
creameries that manufacture a quarter 
of a million pounds of bvitter annually. 
Is director in the Peoples bank of 



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Belvidere. He is always in attendance 
during- sessions. A g-ood legislator. 

Committees: Appropriations, roads and 
bridges, county and township organization, 
live stock and dairying, miscellaneous sub- 
jects. 

Rohrer, Louis, (dem.), Somonauk; 
farmer. Born in Alsace-Lorraine, 
France, Jan. 6, 1837, and emig-rated 
with his parents in '45, coming to La- 
Salle county. He was educated in the 
common schools. Has never been an 
officeholder to any extent and never 
sought an office. He has been on the 
county board of La Salle countj- and 
was elected to the house in '90 and re- 
turned in '92. Is married and owns 
over 8oo acres of fine land. He is 
anxious to see some of the reforms 
promised by the democratic state con- 
vention carried out, and especially is 
he in favor of the enactment of a 
uniform text-book law. 




LOmS EOHKKK. 

Committees : Drainage (chairman) , canal- 
river improvement and commerce, flsh and 
game, live stock and dairying, warehouses, 
agriculture. 

Rottger, Frederick W., (dem.), Mt. 

Sterling ; lumber and grain merchant. 
Born near Menden, Prussia, Aug. 8, 
1844, and emigrated with his father in 
'SO, coming via New Orleans. They 
took a boat up the Mississippi and Illi- 
nois rivers to Naples, thence by the 
old Naples & Jacksonville strap rail- 
road to Jacksonville. After remaining 
in Jacksonville two years he was 
bound out to E. S. Hinrichsen, who 
owned a farm seven miles east of 
town. Mr. Hinrichsen afterwards 
moved to Alexander and was made 
agent of the Great Western railroad, 
now the Wabash, and Fred, was office 
boy. He was finally promoted to take 



complete charge of the station, and in 
'65 was sent to Mt. Sterling to take 
charge of that office. He has held it 
ever since. He gradually became in- 
volved in farming and added lumber 




FREDERICK W. KOTTGER. 

and grain buying and horse buying 
and selling. He was successful at 
everything he touched, and is now well 
off. He is married and owns 945 acres 
of land. Never an office seeker he has 
been mayor of Mt. Sterling and on the 
county board. He educated himself. 

Committees: Appropriations, fees and 
salaries, roads and bridges, county and 
township organization, claims, charitable 
institutions. 

Seawell, Charles W., (dem.), Green- 
ville; mercantile business. Born on a 




CHARLES W. SBAWELL. 

farm in Washington Co., 111., Oct. 19, 
1853, and received his education in the 
district schools. He was raised on a 
farm and his earl)' manhood was spent 



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in the hard work of a farmer. After- 
wards he went into the mercantile 
business, wholesale and retail, at 
which he was very successful. He is 
one of the hardest workers and 
shrewdest politicians in Illinois, and 
was a member of the house in '87. 
Durinj,'- that session, as well as the 
present one, he took an active part in 
all lec,^islation, and wiis on some of the 
most important committees. Is mar- 
ried. He is stroni;- in his political 
views, and has always been a democrat. 

t'omiiiittees: State institutions (chair- 
man), senatorial apportionnu'nt, corpora- 
tions, mines and mining;, warehouses, mili- 
tary, contingent expenses. 

Smith, James A., (dem.). Chats- 
worth; editor. Born in Vermilion, O., 
Aug-. 6, 1845, and came to Illinois with 
his father a year later. He owns The 
Chat.sworth Plaindealer, one of the 
best country newspapers in northern 
Illinois. Mr. Smith received a good 




JAMES A. SMITH. 

common school education. Was elec- 
ted to the house in '88 and '90. In both 
sessions his ability as a leader was 
recognized and his advice sought. He 
works quietly but effectively. Is a 
strong party man and believes in 
strong party organization. Was mar- 
ried, but lost his wife two years ago. 

Committees: Congressional apportionment 
(chairman), education, public charities, 
banks and banking, county and township 
organization, insurance, contingent expen- 
ses, enrolled and engrossed bills, license, 
steering committee. 

Smith, Washington S., (dem.), Mt. 
Zion; farmer. Born in Bath Co., Ky., 
Sept. 27, 1850, and came with his par- 
ents to Illinois in '57, settling in 
Macon county, where Mr. Smith has 
resided ever since. He has filled vari- 



ous township offices, and was supervisor 
for six years, and was chairman of the 
board for two years, resigning in '90 
to enter the house. Is married and 
owns and operates a fine farm. He is 




WASHINGTON S. SMITH. 

a strong democrat, and in advance of 
his party on economic questions. He 
was elected to the house with a demo- 
cratic colleague in '90, and both were 
re-elected in '92, a sufficient evidence 
that the services of both were appre- 
ciated. 

('onmiittees: Fish and game (chairman), 
mines and mining, penal and reformatory, 
agricvilture, labor and nidustrial affairs, 
farm drainage. 

Snedeker, Orville A., (rep.), Jersey- 
ville ; real estate and lawyer. Born 




ORVILLE A. SNEDEKER. 



in Jerseyville June 11, 1848, and edu- 
cated in the public schools of the 
county, such as they were at that time 
and at Shurtleff College ; also a term 



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at a commercial colleg^e. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in '71. Is married 
and has two boys, Isaac and Frank. 
He owns valuable real estate and farm- 
ing- lands. This is the first elective 
office ever held by him. He has fre- 
quently been nominated by conven- 
tions but declined to accept ; his nomi- 
nation last year for the house was the 
third time — he declined on two former 
occasions. The district from which he 
w^as elected included Jersey, Green and 
Scott counties — the 37th. 

Committees: Worlds fair, egriculture, fin- 
ance, printing, public charities and otheis 
•of less importance. 

Snyder, William H., (dem.), Belle- 
ville; law3^er. Born in Belleville 
June 29, 1858, and the third g-eneration 
that has filled a legislative office in 
Illinois, his grandfather, Adam W. 
Snyder, being- a member of the state 
senate in '35, and his father, the late 
Judge Wm. H. Snyder, being- a member 
of the house in '51. He was educated 
in the public schools of Belleville and 
at Washington University, St. Louis. 
He read law with Hay & Knispel, 
Belleville, was admitted to the bar in 
'82 and began practicing his profession 
shortly afterwards. He has been city 
attorney of Belleville, and is not mar- 
ried. As a member of the special com- 
mittee to investigate the accident at 
Wann he took an active and leading 




WILLIAM H. SNTDKU. 

part, and also as a member of the elec- 
tions committee. 

Committees: Libraries (chairman), judi- 
'Ciary, judicial department, elections, penal 
andrel'ormatory, history, Wann investiga- 
tion (special). 

Sparks, Thomas J., (dem.), Bush- 
nell ; lawj'er. Born in Clinton Cc, 



Ind., Aug. 16, 1843, and moved with 
his father to Illinois in '45, coming 
direct to Fulton county. He spent his 
youth on the farm and at 20 went to 
Lombard University, Galesburg, and 
afterwards to Howe's Academy, Mt. 
Pleasant, Iowa, graduating from the 
latter in '69. He then tauerht school 




THOMAS .1 . SPARKS. 

for eight years, reading law in the 
meantime. Was admitted to the bar 
in Nebraska in '71, and after practic- 
ing in that state for six years came to 
Illinois settling in Buslinell where he 
has lived ever since, and has built up 
a good practice. Is married and owns 
240 acres of land. His recent eulogy 
in the house, of Justice Scholfield of 
the supreme court, attracted attention 
to his oratorical powers and his hard 
work in committees and on the floor 
has g-iven him the reputation of be- 
ing- one of the ablest members of this 
general assembly. 

Committees: Fees and salaries (chairmaTi), 
judiciary, judicial department, railroads, 
education , senatorial apportionment, to visit 
penal and reformatory institutions. 

Spellman, Tliomas L., (rep.). Dan- 
ville, also office in Owings Building-, 
Chicago; mine operator. Born in Lo- 
gan Co., O., Oct. 12, 1849. Leaving 
home at the age of 18 he learned tele- 
graphy and was a railroad oper itor 
for several years. In '72 he married 
the daughter of William Tennery, one 
of the oldest and best known citizens 
of Vermillion county. He settled in 
Danville in '80 and has been very suc- 
cessful in business. He is a Mason of 
high degree, an Odd-Fellow, a Pythian, 
a Modern Woodman, a member of the 
Royal Arcanum and of the Mystic 
S.irine. Educated in the public schools. 



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Elected to the house in '90, and ag^ain 
in '92. Is a g'ood member, and iil- 
though a coal operator, was willing- to 
concede to miners legislation to which 
they were justly entitled. He is a 



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THOMAS L. SPELLMAN. 

staunch republican and believes in a 
strong- party org-anization in the house. 

Conimittet's : Itailroads, penal and refor- 
matory, inunicii>al eorporations, claims. 

*Straight, Rufus C, (rep.), Fairbury; 
farmer. Born on a farm in Chautau- 
qua Co., N. Y., June 28, 1835; came to 
Illinois in '54; was a member of the 
school board for 25 years; is married; 
owns 1,500 acres. Member in '91 also. 

Committees: Canal-river improvement 
and commerce, penal and reformatory, pub- 
lic charities, soldiers' home, agi iciiltiire. 




LAWKKNCE B. SI l;lN(.i:i;. 

Stringer, Lawrence B., (dem.), Lin- 
coln; editor. Born in South Ambov. 
N. J., Feb. 24, 1866. He moved to Illi- 
nois with his parents in '76, and gradu- 



ated in '82 at Gitting-'s Seminary, La- 
Harpe, and in '84 went to Lincoln, 
entering- the college there, graduating- 
in the classical course in '87. Then he 
acted as city editor of The Lincoln 
Times, and'studied law. He frequently 
represented his college in oratorical 
contests; and in '88 stumped the state 
for the democratic ticket, winning new 
laurels as an orator and debater. He 
was of republican antecedents, but 
joined the democracy on the tariff 
issue in '88. Was elected to the house 
in '90 and ag^ain in '92 by an increased 
majority. Mr. Stringer was the young- 
est member of the leg-islature of '91. 
He takes prominent part in all import- 
ant leg-islation, is popular with his col- 
leag'-ues, and his frisnds predict a bril- 
liant future for him. Is married. 

Committees: Kducation (chairman), mines 
and mining-, labor and industrial affairs, 
elections, history, printing. 




EDWAKD SXCHBLEFIELl). 

Stubblefield, Edward, (rep.), Mc- 
Lean ; farmer. Born in McLean coun- 
ty Aug. 15, 1834, and received a limited 
education, principalh' by absorption 
in contact with the world. He has 
farmed all his life. The Stubblefield 
family is inter-married with the Funks, 
another great McLean county family, 
Edward Stubblefield's mother being- a 
Funk. The Stubblefields came from 
Virginia, Edward's father moving- 
from Virg'-inia to Ohio and thence to 
Illinois in '24. He has held various 
township offices, is married and owns 
over 800 acres of McLean counts' land, 
as valuable as any in the wide world. 
Mr. Stubblefield has always been a 
strong republican. He is reg-arded as 
a good, substantial farmer legislator. 

Committees: Agriculture, drainage, horti- 
culture, soldiers home. 



IvEGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 



Taggart, Captain T., (dem.), Cisne ; 
physician, was born in Brown Co., 
Ind., Dec. 28, 1846, moved to Cisne in 
'86. He was educated in the common 
schools and received a first-class medi- 
cal education at the Indianapolis Med- 
ical CoUeg-e, graduating- in '79, al- 
though he took a first course of lecture 
in '74. When he became convinced 
that a real live war was upon the 
country he offered his services, enlist- 
ing June '61 in Co. G., S5th Ind. Inf., 
when he was not yet 15 years old, and 
remained until the close of the war, 
participating in the battles of Rich- 
mond, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chat- 
tanooga, Missionary Ridge and the 
Georgia campaign. He was wounded 
twice — at Richmond in Aug. '62 his 
left leg was broken and in March '65 
at Kingston, N. C, he was shot through 
the left arm. Is married and has held 





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CAPTAIN T. TAGGART. 

various minor offices. He is a strong 
advocate of an economical government. 
Committees: Public buildings and grounds 
(chairman), state institutions, penal and re- 
formatory, soldiers home, education, sani- 
tary affairs, history-geology and science. 

Talbot, Prescott H., (rep.). Linden- 
wood, farmer. Was born in Killingly, 
Windham Co., Conn., Dec. 17, 1842, of 
parents who were descendants of the 
Puritans. In '62 he enlisted in Co. G, 
74th 111. Inf., and foug-ht like a true 
patriot until the close of the war. He 
was severely wounded in '63 and had a 
hard fight for life, but was assisted by 
a strong and wiry constitution and an 
indomitable will. When his country 
3ieeded him no longer he returned home 
and went to Rockford to complete his 
education, which had been interrupted 
by the war. Then he settled in Lynn- 



ville. Ogle Co., on a bleak prairie, 
which under his skillful handiwork 
soon bloomed with fruit of the soil. 
His energy, perseverance and thrift 
have enabled him to accumulate a com- 




PRESCOTT H. TALBOT. 

pentency, for he he owns 331 acres of 
splendid Ogle county land. Although 
not seeking preferment, he has been 
honored many times by his neighbors 
with minor offices, and served for 
three years on the county board of 
supervisors. He was elected to the 
house in '90 and rendered valuable 
assistance to the farmers in legisla- 
tive matters. Is married. He is one 
of the most valuable members. 

Committees: Appropriations, military af- 
fairs, license, soldiers home. 




HOMER J. TICE. 

Tice, Homer J., (rep.), Greenview; 
farmer. Born in Menard county, Feb. 
5, 1862. Educated at Lincoln Univer- 



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sity, graduating- in the scientilic course 
in '82 and also took a course in a busi- 
ness college in Bloouiington. Was 
married and made a tour of Europe in 
'83 returning to his splendid farm of 
500 acres near Greenview. Was nomi- 
nated for the house in '90 on the 96th 
ballot and elected the same year, and 
was returned in "92. He is particularly 
active in the interest of the farmers. 
He is interested in the improvement of 
the Illinois river and after a hard fig'-ht 
g-ot resolutions through the house with 
that object in view. Mr. Tice is one 
of the most reliable and ablest repre- 
sentatives the republicans of his dis- 
trict ever sent to Spring-field. 

Committees: Appropriations, penal and 
reformatory, agriculture, labor and indus- 
trial affairs, horticulture. 

Wallace, William H., (rep.). Hum- 
bolt; farmer. Born in Ripley Co., 
Ind., Oct. 11, 1840, and moved to Coles 
Co., 111., in '74. Educated in the com- 
mon schools and at a commercial 
colleg"e and graduated in medicine at 
the Ohio Medical CoUeg^e, Cincinnati, 
in '67. After practicing'- his profession 
for nine years he turned his attention 
to farmings, with flattering'- results. In 
the fall of '61 he enlisted in Co. F, 37th 
Ind. Inf., and served as a private, cor- 
poral, company clerk, regimental 
postmaster, assistant division postmas- 
ter, and division postmaster. The last 
two Years of his service were in Louis- 




WILLIAM H. WALLACE. 

ville, where he had charg-e of the 
distribution of the military mail, a 
responsible and arduous position. He 
is married and owns over 860 acres of 
land. He was elected supervisor from 
his township by a majority of 19, 
although the township is democratic 



by 100, evidencing that he is best liked 
where he is best known. He is a faith- 
ful representative, always in his seat. 

Committees: Li-ve stock and dairying, 
state institutions, executive department,, 
warehouses. 

Warder, Walter, (rep.), Cairo; law- 
yer. Born at Maysville, Ky., April 7, 




WALTER WARDER. 

1851, his father moving to Johnson Co., 
111., next year. He was raised on a. 
farm and participated in the hardships 
of a farmer boy in the 60's. He at- 
tended the public schools and complet- 
ed his education at Illinois University, 
Champaign. Returning home he 
worked on the farm, taught school 
and studied law, applying'- himself in- 
dustriously, and was tidinitted to the 
bar in Sept. '74, and immediatly began 
practice at Marion. In '76 he married 
Miss Dora Bain, daug'-hter of John. 
Bain, of Vienna, one of the wealthiest 
and luost prominent citizens of South- 
ern Illinois. In '80 he removed to 
Cairo. In '83 he was appointed states, 
attorney of Alexander county' to fill a. 
vacancy; in "85 he was appointed mas- 
ter in chancery and has held the office 
ev^er since. Although of southern 
birth and democratic antecedents he 
has always been a republican, and is- 
reg-arded as one of the strongest men 
in "Eg-ypt." He has earned the repu- 
tation of being'- a conscientious and in- 
dustrious member. He was the caucus 
nominee for temporary speaker last 
January'; served on the leading com- 
mittees of the session of '91, including 
the steering- committee, and was re- 
elected by an increased vote in '92. 

Committees: .Judiciary, mines and min- 
ing, banks and banking, insurance, road* 
and bridges, congressional apportionment, 
steering committee. 



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LEGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 



■^Thiemann, William, (rep.), Itasca ; 
farmer. Born in Hanover, Germany, 
Feb. 11, 1849, and in '57 emigrated 
with his parents to DuPage county. 
He was elected to the house in '90 and 
'92 ; common school education. Is 
married and owns 290 acres. 

Committees: Corporations, education, 
public charities, live stock and dairylns^-. 
■claims. 

"Warren, James P., (dem.). Rose 
Hill, Jasper Co.; farmer, was born in 
Bartholomew Co., Ind., Sept. 25, 1842; 
in '52 the family settled in Jasper 
-county; common school education; is 
married and owns 420 acres. Enlisted 
in Co. D, 97th 111. Inf., and served 
three years. 

Committees: Congressional apportion- 
ment, farm drainage, pul:)lic buildings, state 
institutions. 

Watson, James H., (dem.). Wood- 
lawn, Jefferson Co.; physician. Born 
in Mt. Vernon July 31, 1846, and re- 
ceived a common school education. 
In '62 enlisted in Co. E, 70th 111. Inf. 
After his discharge he was in the U. 
S. secret service under Gen. Palmer 
until the surrender of Lee. Then he 
studied medicine and graduated from 
the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons, St. Ivouis, and has successfully 
practiced his profession ever since. 
He has been supervisor, trustee of 
Woodlawn several times and for six 
years was on the board of pension ex- 




JAMES H. WATSON. 

aminers at Mt. Vernon. He has been 
•delegate to conventions without num- 
iDer and was chairman of the senatorial 
-committee of his district for four years. 
He was elected to the house in '90 and 
and again in '92, and in a quiet, unos- 
tentatious way acts well the part of a 



legislator. His investig-ation of 
abuses in the Anna insane asylum last 
session created a sensation. 

Committees: Public charities (chairman), 
railroads, elections, military affairs, re- 
trenchment, sanitary affairs, senatorial ap- 
portionment. 

Wheelock, William W., (rep.), Chi- 
cago; lawyer. Born in Eelts Mills, 




WILLIAM W. ANHKLLOCK. 

Jefferson Co., N. Y., Sept. 24, 1864, 
and educated at St. Lawrence Uni- 
versity, Canton, N. Y., and at the 
Northwestern University Law School, 
Chicago. Moved to Chicago in '86, 
was admitted to the bar in '89, and 
was in Corporation Counsel Miller's 
office for a number of years, but is 
now practicing alone, and is very suc- 
cessful. Is not married. He was as- 
sistant attorney for the Chicago 
Drainage Board up to Jan. 1, '93, when 
he resigned to take his seat in the 
House. Chicago has three republican 
clubs for the three divisions of the 
city — the Lincoln, the Hamilton and 
the Marquette clubs. He was the 
founder of the first, has been its sec- 
retary since it was organized and his 
shrewdness and ability in political 
matters is conceded. He is anxious to 
secure an amendment to the constitu- 
tion that will permit the abolishment 
of the justice courts in Cook county, 
and the substitution therefor of dis- 
trict courts, and is heartily backed 
by the Supreme Court, the Chicago 
judges and the Chicago Bar associa- 
tion, and has good show of success. 

Committees: Judiciary, judicial depart- 
m(!nt, drainage, state institutions, military 
affairs, roads and bi idges 

"Weckler, Frederick S., (rep.), Fay- 
etteville; farmer. Born in Peru, Ind., 
Sept. 10, 1848, and moved to Fayette- 



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ville in '69; educated at Notre Dame. 
Lost his wife three years a^o, and 
owns 420 acres. Is justice of the peace. 
Uoinmittee.s: Af^rUMilturc, mines and min- 
ing, labor and indiisti ial affiiirs, license. 

Whitley, Langley St. A., (dem.). 
Spring-held; physician. Born in 
Spring-held July 21, 1863, and educated 
in the public schools. Educated in 
the medical profession at St. Louis, 
at the Colleg-e of Phj'sicians and 
Surg-eons, New York, at the Long- 
Island Medical Colleg-e in Brooklyn, 
and beg-an to practice his profession 
in Spring-field in '83, and was very 
successful. Is married and is inter- 
ested in real estate. Is very strong- 
with labor org-anizations and cham- 
pions their cause in the house. He 
was a pag-e in the house in "75, and has 
been chief surg-eon of the Wabash 
railroad, middle division, in charg-e of 




LANGLEY ST. A. WHITLEY. 

their largfe hospital in Spring^field, 
and has a great reputation for saving- 
limbs when amputation seems almost 
a necessity. 

Committees: Finance (chairman), ap 
propriations, fish and game, pnblic build- 
ings, revenui!, railroads, agriculture, con- 
gressional apporli(inment, miiies and 
mining. 

Wilkening, Conrad, (dem.), Crete; 
merchant. Born in Crete March 24, 
1856, and educated at parochial and 
public schools and at Bryant & Strat- 
tan's Business Colleg-e, Chicag-o, g-rad- 
uating: when only 17 ^-ears of ag-e. He 
has been eng-ag-ed in the mercantile 
business for 23 years, and is the senior 
member of the firm of C. Wilkening'- & 
Co. They deal in general merchandise 
with a banking- attachment. It is not 
only the largest department store in 
Crete, but the larg-est in Will county. 



He never sought office in his life; has 
been school treasurer for ten or twelve 
years, and was nominated for the house 
against his protest. He lived in Chi- 
cago for a time. He is married and in 




CONRAD WILKENING. 

comfortable circumstances. He was 
interested in the repeal of the Edwards 
law and favors the enactment of an- 
other compulsory law with the objec- 
tionable features removed. He is quiet 
and accommodating and has made 
many friends. 

Committees: Education, penal and re- 
formatory, banks and banking, printing, 
libraries ."world's fair. 

Wilson, H. Clay, (rep.), Springfield; 
lawyer. Born in Davis Co., Ky., July 
2, 1856, and on the outbreak of the 




H. (.LAY WILSON. 



civil war his father removed with his 
family to Enterprise, Ind., in which 
state Mr. Wilson resided until '82, 
when he came to Sangamon Co., 111. 



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LEGISI^ATIVE SOUVENIR. 



At the ag^e of 12 he began working- on 
his father's farm and continued at it 
until he was 20, when he started to 
school at Danville, Ind., and grad- 
uated in the teacher's and commercial 
course. Then he came to Sangamon 
county and taught in the public 
schools for seven years, in the mean- 
time studying law and was admitted 
to the bar in '88. Was nominated by 
the republicans for county judge in 
'90, but the overwhelming democratic 
majority was too much to overcome. 
He was unanimously nominated for 
the legislature in the spring of '92. 
Is married and has two interesting 
children. He takes great interest in 
fraternal and beneficiary societies, 
being a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a K. 
of P., an Elk, a Maccabee and a Mod- 
ern Woodman. He is very popular 
and stands well with his colleagues. 

Committees: Judicial department, cor- 
porations, labor and industrial affairs, build- 
ing and loan associations, congressional ap- 
portionment, printing, penal and re- 
foxnnatory. 

Wilson, James P., (dem.), Woosung; 
farmer. Born in Blair Co., Pa., June 
7, 1854, and in '56 moved with his par- 
ents to Dixon, 111. After attending 
Knox College, Galesburg, he taught 
school, and in '77 moved to Woosung, 
the heart of an agricultural paradise, 
where he has become a successful 
farmer, owning 160 acres of as good 




JAMES p. WILSON. 

land as the rain ever pattered on. He 
was a member of the Ogle county 
board of supervisors for many years 
and its chairman for one year. He 
was a member of the House in '77 and 
again in '91. As chairman of the 
committee on appropriations last ses- 



sion he made a record that will serve 
as an example for future leader s in a 
fight for an economical government. 
He is an orator of no mean ability as 
those who listened to his speech in 
Rochelle in '90 in presenting Gen. Pal- 
mer with a cane can testify, yet he 
seldom airs his eloquence in the house. 




JACOB ZIMMEEMAN. 

Committees: Revenue (chairman), agri- 
culture, flnance, live stock and dairying, 
elections, contingent expenses, senatorial 
apportionment, steering committee. 

Zimmerman, Jacob, (dem.). Mount 
Carmel; farmer. Born on a farm near 
Greensburg, Pa., Sept. 27, 1831, and 
nine years later moved with his 
father's family to Stark Co., O., 
where they remained for three years, 
when they went to Upper Sandus.ky, 
and from there he moved to Marshall, 
111., in '52. Here in connection with 
the late James C. Robinson he estab- 
lished and published The Eastern Illi- 
noisan, a paper of wide circulation 
and influence in democratic circles in 
that day. It was here in '53 that he 
introduced the plan of a primary elec- 
tion instead of delegate conventions 
for nominating county officers; he 
was the pioneer in this innovation 
which was necessary in that early 
day on account of the trading and 
combinations of candidates. He ran 
The Eastern lUinoisan for four years 
and then moved to Urbana, where he 
established The Constitution, a demo- 
cratic paper, of course, which he ran 
for four years, through the panic of '57;; 
was legislative correspondent for The 
State Register in '57. In '60 he movedl 
to Mt. Carmel and established The 
Democrat, which ran during the cam- 
paign as a red hot Douglas champion.. 
After the election he abandoned' jour- 



T.KOI.SLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



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nalisiu for the farm except occasional 
contributions to the press. He was a 
successful tobacco fanner for nianj' 
years, but now farms in a j^^eneral way 
includin.i,'- live stock. While at Mar- 
shall he bought two printing offices; 
one was used in establishing The 
Eastern Illinoisan and the other was 
taken to Greenup to start The Cum- 
berland County Democrat; it was the 
first paper that county had. He was 
educated in the common and select 
schools, is married and owns abut 350 
acres of land. He has been on the 
county board and held minor offices, 
and was elected to the house in '78. 
He is anxious to see this legislature 
amend the revenue law by changing 
the time for taking final judgment 
against delinquent taxpa^-ers to July, 
so that farmers can realize on their 
crops before their taxes are collected. 
He is on more important committees 
than any other member. 

Committees: Countj^ and township organ- 
ization (chaiiman), rules, appropriations, 
revenue, judicial department, roads and 
bridges, drainage, federal relations, horti- 
culture. 

* Wilke, Fred, (rep.) Beecher; farmer. 
Born in Westphalia, Germany, March 
17, 1829, and emigrated to Will county 
in '60. Common school education; is 
■married; elected to the house in '88, '90 
and '92. He has been supervisor 
since '71. 

Committees: Canal-river improvement and 
commerce, penal and reformatory, roads and 
bridges, drainage. 

*Wiwi, Philip, (dem.), Montrose; 
merchant. Born in Rhenish Bavaria, 
June 10, 1833, and emigrated to Indiana 
in '50; moved to Illinois in '67; educated 
in common schools; elected to the 
house in '90 and '92. Is married and 
owns 1,100 acres. 

Committees: Claims (cliairman), public- 
charities, public buildings, elections, sol- 
diers' home. 



In the "make-up" it wasnecessarj' to 
change a few of the biographical 
sketches from their true alphabetical 
position. An effort was made to get 
every portrait in its place — in the biog- 
raphy, or immediately preceding it. 
It is no fault of the compiler and pub- 
lisher that the House of Representa- 
tives is not represented by a complete 
portrait gallery. Povertj^ on the part 
of those whose sketches are marked 
with a * is no good reason, for without 
exception, almost, the biography indi- 
cates a degree of prosperity above the 
average citizen and legislator. 



THE PRESS GALLERY. 

Some of the brightest stars in the 
journalistic firmament have sent us 
as "hot stuff" from Springfield as thej' 
ever will send in this world. The 
writer's experience as a legislative 
correspondent dates from the session 
of '83, when the little unpleasantness 
over Mr. Rook and the passage of the 
Harper High License Bill, furnished 
gingery sensations for weeks. The 
next legislature — that of '85— contained 

101 democrats and E- M. Haines and 

102 republicans, and the correspond- 
ents wanted plenty of space. Guns, 
knives, clubs and grim death were only 
ordinarj' diurnal incidents of both ses- 
sions until the jjoints at issue were 
finally adjusted. The meetings in '87 
and '89 were comparatively peaceful, 
but '91 was hot enough. No ordinary' 
material could cope with the events of 
these sessions of the Illinois General 
Assembly, and the managing editors 
appreciated the gravity of the assign- 
ment by detailing their best men. 
Among others who have burned the 
wires the following are noted: R. W. 
Ransom, now night editor of The Tri- 
bune; V. B. Kelly, lately of The New 
York Sun; Charles M. Pepper, now 
chief of the Washington staff of The 
Chicago Tribune; Walter Wellman, 
now chief of the Washington staff of 
The Chicago Herald; John P. Ballan- 
tyne, afterwards managing editor of 
The Chicago Herald and Daily News; 
Charles R. Tuttle, now managing 
editor of The Chicago Dispatch; Pho- 
cion Howard was an omnipresent and 
indispensable adjunct — peace to his 
weary bones; Brand Whitlock, now 
chief clerk of the index department of 
the Secretary of State's office; Dan 
Ambrose, now running a paper in Mis- 
souri; L. W. Busby, now assistant 
editor on The Inter Ocean; E. L. Mer- 
ritt, now a representative in the house 
from Sangamon county' ; Will Connelh', 
now owner of the Danville Daily Press, 
and others whose names are not now 
recalled. John A. Corwin, on duty in 
'81-3 for The Times, switched to The 
Herald, and finallj' landed with The 
Tribune; is now in charge of that jour- 
nal's legislative bureau, and has had 
it for several sessions. Mr. Corwin is 
the oldest correspondent in consecu- 
tive service with the Illinois General 
Assembly. T. C. MacMillan, now in 
charge of the The Inter Ocean staff, 
was a member of the legislature from 
'85 to '91 inclusive. J. C. Hollman's 



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first session was in '83, and the veteran 
W. K. Sullivan has represented The 
Evening Journal "off and on" for 
many years. Sketches of late arrivals 
and several old friends are submitted 
below. At every session the legislative 
press gallery has been filled with con- 
spicuously bright, able and untiring 
news-gatherers. 




MR. HOLLMAN. 

HOIvLMAN, JOSEPH C, in charge 
of The Chicago Record Bureau is a na- 
tive of southwestern Wisconsin, and 
was born in 1846. He learned the 
printer's trade in a country newspa- 
per office, and with the exception of a 
brief service in the army, has been 
continuously in newspaper work since 
'60. He was typo and telegraph editor 
on the Milwaukee Sentinel from '66 to 
'74, and then accompanied a retiring 
proprietor of that journal to Quincy, 
111., where, during fourteen years, he 
served in every reportorial and edito- 
rial position on The Daily Whig. 
In the meantime he had become 
familiar with legislation and politics 
in Illinois, representing The Chicago 
Tribune in the lower house of the 
general assembly in '83 and being 
in attendance upon all subsequent 
sessions. In '88 he removed to Chicago 
and became a reporter on The Morn- 
ing News— now The Record— and has 
since reported four sessions of the 
legislature for it and has done state 
politics during the campaigns. 

MacMIEEAN, THOMAS C, in 
charge of The Chicago Inter Ocean 
Bureau, was born at Stranraer, Scot- 
land, Oct. 4, 1850, and in '57 moved 
with his parents to Chicago, where 
he attended the public schools for 



a time, leaving to serve as an ap- 
prentice to a machinist. Poor health 
compelled him to abandon this, and 
he returned to school, graduating from 
the high school. Then he entered 
the Chicago University. In January, 
'73, he became a reporter on The 
Inter Ocean. In '75 he went as cor- 
respondent of that paper with the 
Black Hills exploring expedition, and 
in '75-6 he represented his paper with 
Gen. Crook in his campaign against 
Sitting Bull and his hostile Sioux. In 
'78 he made an extensive tour of Eu- 
rope and in '80 succeeded Robert P. 
Porter as editor of "Our Curiosity 
Shop," an important department of 
The Inter Ocean. In '82 he succeeded 
George B. Armstrong as city editor, 
and two years later returned to the 
"Curiosity Shop." In January, '83 he 
married Miss Mary C. Goudie of 
Na-au-say, Kendall county. He has 
served as a member of the Cook 
County Board of Education for three 
years and for five years has been sec- 
retary and director of the Chicago 
Free Kindergarten association, and is 
also a director of the American Educa- 
tional Aid association of Illinois; was 
director for two terms in the Chicago 
Public Library. Mr. MacMillan was 
elected to the house in '84 and '86, and 
advanced to the senate in '88, his term 




MR. MACMILLAN. 



expiring in '92; he was named by the 
republicans for congress last year, but 
was defeated. He was a charter mem- 
ber of the Chicago Press Club, and is 
first vice president of the Illinois St. 
Andrews Society. In June, '85, Illi- 
nois College at Jacksonville conferred 
on him the degree of Master of Arts. 
He is a quiet, but energetic worker. 



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BURUETT, SAM M., in charg-e of 
The ChicHf^'o Herald Bureau, was born 
in Boyle county, Kentucky, February 
5, 1854. He studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in '76. In '78 he 
was elected prosecuting- iittorney of 
Rockcastle county in his native state, 
holding- the office for four years. 
While eng-ag-ed in the practice of law 
he developed a taste for journalistic 
work, which he cultivated by making- 
occasional contributions to the col- 
umns of The Ivouisville Courier- Jour- 
nal. In '84 Mr. Burdett was g-iven a 
position by Mr. Henry Watterson on 
the editorial staff of The Courier- 
Journiil. In November, '87, he was 
appointed a special ag-ent of the 
United States Internal Revenue de- 
partment under President Cleveland 
and was assig'-ned to duty in the north- 
west with headquarters at Omaha. He 
resig-ned the office of revenue ag-ent 
soon after the accession of President 
Harrison and returned to Kentucky. 
March 24. '90, Mr. Burdett was mar- 
ried to Miss Clara B. Russell, daugh- 
ter of A. A. Russell, of Massillon, 
Ohio. Immediately after his mar- 
riage he went with his wife to Denver, 
Col., where they resided for one year, 
removing- to Chicago in May, '91. In 
the following Aug'-ust he was em- 
ployed as an editorial writer on the 




MK. BURDETT. 

staff of The Chicago Herald, and last 
January Mr. Burdett was sent to 
Springfield and placed in charge of 
The Herald's legislative bureau. 

GRAHAM, WILLIAM A. S., in 
charge of The Chicag-o Times Bureau, 
■was born inNewtownhamilton, County 
Armagh, Ireland, Feb. 6, 1863, and re- 



ceived a good common school educa- 
tion. In '79 he came to America and 
was employed as office boy in The 
Philadelphia Press. Subsequently he 
became a copy-holder and g-raduated 
as a writer under the tutelage of Maj. 
Moses P. Handy, the present chief of 
the Bureau of Publicitv and Promo- 
tion of the World's Fair. In '82 he 




MR. (UiAHAJI. 

went to Denver, and two years later 
moved to Chicag'-o, prior to the demo- 
cratic national convention of '84, and 
has been doing politics for Chicago 
newspapers ever since. He was with 
The Times in '84; The Tribune in '89, 
reporting the legislative session that 
3'ear, and on the adjournment of the 
leg'-islature was made secretiiry of the 
press bureau by the Chicago newspa- 
pers, and assigned to the task of work- 
ing up sentiment through the press 
for Chicago as the world's fair city. 
At this time he was attacked with 
typhoid fever and nearly died. On 
recovering, he reported the special 
session of the leg'-islature for The 
Herald, continuing with that journal 
until after the election of '90, and has 
since been with The Times. He had 
charg-e of the leg-islative bureau of 
that paper in '91, and in the campaign 
of '92 was a very valuable and discreet 
aid to Gov. Altgeld and the demo- 
cratic ticket. His labors were recog- 
nized, for he was made commissioner 
of the Illinois & Michigan canal by 
the governor. He took an active in- 
terest in the campaign of Carter H. 
Harrison, editor of The Times, for 
mayor of Chicago this spring and was 
selected as private secretary to the 
mayor by Mr. Harrison, a position for 
which he is eminently qualified. 



LEGISIvATlVE SOUVENIR. 



Jan. '88 he was married to Miss Caro- 
line Brown, of Evanston, and they 
have had two boys, one of whom is 
living-. 

SUIvIvIVAN, WIIvLIAM K., in 
charge of The Chicago Evening Jour- 
nal Bureau, was born in Waterford, 
Ireland, Nov. 10, 1843. He was edu- 




MR. SULLIVAN. 

cated at the Waterford Model School 
and in Dublin. In his youth he was 
intended for a Methodist minister, but 
he preferred to seek his fortune in 
America and in another pursuit. He 
emigrated in '63, and his career for a 
time was somewhat varied. He served 
in the 141st III. Inf.; taught school for 
a time in Kane and Kendall counties; 
ran an engine in West Virginia dur- 
ing the oil excitement there. Then he 
■went \o Europe, and when he returned 
stopped in New York for a time, con- 
tributing to Gen. Halpin's (Miles 
O'Reilly) Citizen. Then he read 
proof and became a reporter on the 
New York Sun under Moses Beach, 
and served under Charles A. Dana be- 
fore he returned to the west and Chi- 
cago. He was first connected with 
The Tribune, and afterwards The 
Evening Journal. He has been with 
this reliable chronicler of events for 
eighteen years as city editor, manag- 
ing editor and correspondent. He was 
a representative in the 27th General 
Assembly; was appointed by Maj^or 
Colvin on the Chicago Board of Edu- 
cation, and served three years, two 
years as president of the board; was 
United States consul to the Bermudas 
during President Harrison's adminis- 
tration, and resigned in Oct. '92. In 
'64 he was married to Miss Amelia 
Shackelford, of Evanston, and has 



one son and one daughter. Mr. Sul- 
livan has been on duty at every Illi- 
nois legislative assembly for over 
twenty years, and is almost as well 
known as the state house to public 
men of both parties. 

JONES, ALEXANDER J., in 
charge of the Associated Press Bureau, 
was born in Sangamon Co., 111., July 11, 
1860. He was raised on a farm, and 
in 1877 entered the United States 
Naval Academy at Annapolis, on the 
nomination of Congressman Wm. M. 
Springer, as a cadet midshipman. 
After one year's service he resigned 
and, proceeding to Eondon, shipped 
aboard a merchant vessel as seaman 
for Australia. He spent several 
months in Australia, traversing ex- 
tensively the provinces of Victoria and 
New South Wales. Then he shipped 
at Sydney as an ordinary seaman on 
a Bolivian vessel for San Francisco. 
After two years' absence, and having 
sailed around the world as sailor before 
the mast, he returned to Illinois, and 
in '80 began teaching school. Three 
years later he entered the newspaper 
business, spending two years in 
Erance and other European countries 
to perfect his knowledge in literature 
and acquire proficiency in the French 
language. In '84-5-6 he was employed 
successively on The New York Tribune, 
The Chicago Times and The Chicago 




MK. JONES. 

Inter Ocean, finally going to Wash- 
ington as clerk of the Committee on 
Claims of the house of representatives. 
He was married in '85 to Miss Agnes 
S. Chalmers, of Springfield, 111., and 
they have one child, a boy. In '88 he 
was appointed by President Cleveland 



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97 



as United States consul at Barran- 
quilla, Colombia, South America and 
held this office until the expiration of 
the Cleveland administration. He 
then returned to the newspaper pro- 
fession accepting- a position on The 
Chica,<,'-o Times, and finally became 
the manager of the Springfield Legis- 
lative Bureau of the Associated Press 
in '89. For the past four years he has 
been the political correspondent of the 
Associated Press and has reported 
nearly all the great events, political 
and otherwise, in the United States 
since that time, including the Johns- 
town horror, the Cronin trial, the 
Homestead riots, many state conven- 
tions, and three national conventions. 
During- the sessions of the last con- 
g"ress he represented the Associated 
Press at Washing-ton, D. C, returning 
to Springfield every alternate year to 
take charge of the Illinois Legislative 
Bureau. 

FITZMAURICE, D. C, in charg-e 
of The St. Louis Republic Bureau at 
the sessions of '91-'93, was born in 
Cincinnati, May 12, 1855. His early 
education was in the schools of Illi- 
nois, at Kansas and Charleston, and 
completed bj' taking the full course 
at Hughes' High School, Cincinnati. 
His first newspaper work was on The 
Cincinnziti Star, then a new daily pa- 




Mli. I'lTZMAUKlCl!;. 

per, since consolidated with The 
Times. Later he was on the local 
staff of The Cincinnati Enquirer. In 
June, '76, he took the editorial man- 
agement of a new democratic daily 
which the democrats of Alton were 
anxious to establish after several fail- 
ures by men who have since become 



eminent in journalism, politics and 
commerce. The first number of The 
Alton Democrat appeared under his 
manag^ement June 17, '76, and he re- 
mained the editor of the paper for 
twelve years. In "88 he contributed a 
series of letters to The St. Louis Re- 
public, developing the practical oper- 
ation of the taxation and revenue sys- 




MK. KIDl) 



tems of Illinois. After the close of 
the campaign of that year he was at- 
tached to the staff of The Republic 
as staff correspondent. In that capa- 
city he has seen wide and varied ser- 
vice in all parts of the country'. 

KIDD, THOMAS W. S.. editor and 
proprietor of The Daily Monitor, of 
Springfield, was born in New Castle, 
Del., Oct. 22, 1828. His parents were 
natives of Delaware, but of Irish de- 
scent. Both Capt. Kidd's parents died 
when he was ver^' young-, and he was 
raised by an aunt. He attended school 
but six weeks during- his life. In '40 
the family moved to Philadelphia and 
Thomas served two years as errand boy 
in a merchant tailoring establish- 
ment. Here T. S. Arthtir and other 
literary- celebrities frequently met and 
young- Kidd in listening to their con- 
versation first conceived the idea of 
learning- something- of books and the 
world. He learned the trades of printer 
and stereot^'per and subsequently' that 
of blacksmith and machinist, and was 
with locomotive builders at Wilming- 
ton until '49, when he removed to 
Chicago and took charge of extensive 
iron shops. He soon tired of this and 
accepted a place as traveling- ag-ent 
for an agricultural implement firm, 
remaining in this line until '57. Iti 



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February, '56, he moved to Spring-- 
field; in '57 was bailiff in the U. S. 
marshal's office; in '58 was elected 
coroner and appointed deputy sheriff; 
in the winters of '58-'59 and '59-'60 he 
served as sheriff of the Supreme 
Court; in '60 he was made crier of the 
U. S. District Court by Judge Treat, 
which he held until '77; he was 
assessor of Springfield for fifteen 
years and collector for two years; in 
'58 he read law and was admitted to 
the bar. He established the Sanga- 
mo Monitor May 1, '73 and The 
Morning Monitor June 28, '77. In 
July, '54, he married Miss Charlotte 
Janney, of Cecil Co., Md., and six 
children have been born to them, of 
whom one — a daughter — survives. As 
a writer Capt. Kidd has a peculiar 
style of his own. He uses very plain 
English without frills and everybody 
knows what he means. 




MK. DAVIS. 

DAVIS, JOHN McCAN, in charge 
of The St. Ivouis Globe-Democrat 
Btireau, is a native of Fulton County, 
this state. His first journalistic expe- 
rience was in Canton, 111., where he 
was engaged in newspaper work for 
several years. He came to Spring- 
field in '88 and connected himself with 
The Illinois State Journal. He has 
been in charge of the legislative work 
of The Globe-Democrat for two ses- 
sions — the Thirty-seventh and Thirty- 
eighth General Assemblies. Mr. 
Davis, at different times, has repre- 
sented a number of metropolitan pa- 
pers at the state capital, being now 
the resident correspondent of The 
Chicago Times and several eastern 
papers, including The New York World. 
He represents several journals. 



MITCHEI.lv, HENRY ROBEY, rep- 
resenting several prominent dailies, 
was born in Illinois and was educated 
as a practical farmer. He entered 
the United States service at the 




MK. MIXCllELL. 

age of twenty years, and since the 
war has been engaged in newspaper 
work of different kinds. For the past 
fifteen years he has been connected 
with The Chicago Inter Ocean most of 
the time, and has been a reporter in 
the Illinois legislature since the mem- 
orable Eogan-Morrison contest in 1885. 
VAUGHN, JOHN E., in charge 
of The Springfield Morning Mon- 
itor, was born in Belleville, 111., 
Sept. 17, 1870. He received a good 




MR. VAUGHN. 



common school education in the Belle- 
ville schools. He came to Springfield 
about six years ago, and began on The 
Monitor as police and justices' courts 



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99 



reporter, and uiade this department of 
The Monitor a feature of the paper. 
He reported the leg-islature of '91 and 
was assigned to "do" the state conven- 
tions and local and state politics for 
Capt. Kidd's agg'ressive journal. He 
did his work well, and is a reliable and 
able reporter and writer. He is the 
youngest correspondent in charge of 
the work for any newspaper this ses- 
sion. The Monitor publishes the best 
and most comprehensive reports of the 
legislative proceedings of any local 
paper. 

PICKERING, JOHN L., of Spring- 
field, who has represented various 
metropolitan papers during legislative 
sessions, and is the compiler of this 
book, was born near Neoga, 111., Sept. 
12, 1860, and spent his boyhood in 
Areola. In '75 he was train boy on 
the Illinois Central, and afterwards 
switched to the position of brakeman 




MR. PICKERING. 

on a freight train, which he followed 
a year or more. He started to learn 
the printer's trade when 10 yezLm 
old, and in '78 quit railroading for a 
"slug"" in The Peoria National Demo- 
crat office, attending- the Peoria high 
school at the same time. In '80-'82 he 
solicited subscribers for The Chicago 
Herald throughout the northwest, and 
worked as news compositor in the 
same office. Reported the legislature 
of '83 and '85 for The Springfield Reg- 
ister, and was telegraph editor of the 
same paper for several years. In '87 
he established in Springfield a polit- 
ico-society weekly, The Capital Idea, 
which he conducted for three j'ears, 
and then sold it. He has contributed 
letters on Illinois politics since '84 to 
The Herald, The Times, The Republic 



and The Tribune; during the cam- 
paigns of '86, '88 and '90 was con- 
nected with The Herald and The 
Republic, and was with The Tribune 
in '92; was on The Times staff during 
the sessson of '91, and wont on the 
Washington staff of that paper in 
Dec. '91. He is a practical printer in 
all departments. In Dec. '83, he mar- 
ried Miss Etta Rountree, of Nashville, 
111., and they have three children, a 
boy and two girls. 

GRAIN INSPECTION. 

In '71 the legislature passed laws 
providing for state inspection of grain 
in Chicago and placing it under the 
supervision of the railroad and ware- 
house commission. The g-rain inspec- 
tion and warehouse registrar depart- 
ments of Chicago were organized in 
July, '71, and since then the following 
have been chief inspectors: W. F. 
Tompkins, W. H. Harper, J. C. Smith, 
J. P. Reynolds, P. Bird Price and 
George P. Bunker. The chief inspector 
is appointed by the governor. The 
registrar is appointed by the railroad 
and warehouse commission, and the 
following have filled the office since 
'71: Stephen Clary, T. H. Tvndale, B. 
F. Cnlver, H. S. Dean, P. Bird Price, 
J. W. Burst, J. M. Turn bull and Louis 
Wagner. Messrs. Bunker and Wag- 
ner are the onl3' officers of democratic 
faith that ever filled these positions. 
Although new to the duties thej' have 
given satisfactory ovidence of the wis- 
dom of Gov. Altgeld in selecting them. 

BUNKER, GEORGE P., Chief Grain 
Inspector, although active in politics 
for a number of years, is a successful 
business man. For fifteen years he 
has been a manufacturer of vinegar 
and pickles. In all the political cam- 
paigns in Chicago during the last 
seven ^^ears he has been a member of 
the executive committee of the county 
central committee, in every case acting 
as treasurer. The only political posi- 
tion he has held was that of alderman 
from the Eighth ward. He was for 
two years in the council and two years 
ago refused the office for a second 
term. Mr. Bunker was born in Frank- 
lin county. New York, forty-three years 
ago and at the age of eighteen moved 
to Chicago. The second day after his 
arrival he became a conductor on the 
West Division railway and remained 
there about a year. He then secured 



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employment with William Goldie & 
Co., contractors, and was with that 
firm five years, when he embarked in 
the pickle and vineg^ar business. His 
abilities as a business man are unques- 




GEO. p. BUNKEE. 

tioned, and while in the council he 
served his ward and the city well. Mr. 
Bunker is a member of the Iroquois 
Club, and the Cook County Democracy 
and Marching- Club. 

WAGNER, lyOUIS, Warehouse Reg-- 
istrar, was born in Watertown, Wis., 
Jan. 28, 1858, and has lived in Chicago 
since '66. He was educated at North- 
"western University, Watertown, at 
Concordia Gymnasium, Fort Wayne, 
g-raduating- in '76, and at Concordia 




LOUIS WAGNEK, 



(Saxon) University, St. Ivouis, gradti- 
ating- in '79. He has been editor of 
German daily papers in St. Louis and 
Chicago for ten years. In '90 he was 



nominated for the state senate by the 
democrats of the Seventh district, and 
was defeated by only 833 votes, al- 
though his opponent was a prominent 
republican, and had been elected in 
'86 by a majority of over 2,300. Mr. 
Wagner made a tour of the state last 
year, speaking at forty-five places in 
English, German and Low German, 
for the democratic ticket. He devoted 
himself principally to exposing the 
iniquities of the Edwards Compulsory 
School Eaw, and is the author of the 
pamphlet, "A Brief History of the 
Edwards Eaw," a tract that provoked 
a great deal of newspaper controversy, 
and was circulated as a campaign doc- 
ument. He was appointed warehouse 
registrar March 13, 1893, a selection 
that was well received in the state. 




PHOTOGRAPHER ANDERSON. 

ANDERSON, E. S., the well known 
Springfield photogra|)her, was born in 
Madison Co., N. Y., April 30, 1847, and 
received a good common school educa- 
tion. He came to Northern Illinois 
with his parents in '52, and spent most 
of his time until '67 in Rockford. where 
he learned his profession. He com- 
menced business in '69 and has had a 
ver3' sttccessful experience. He estab- 
lished a studio in Springfield in '74, 
and in '84 was compelled to romove to 
larger quarters — to his present loca- 
tion, north side of the square — on 
account of increased business. He has 
negatives for every legislator since 
and including '85, when he made the 
Eogan "103" group under contract with 
that statesman's friends. He keeps up 
with the latest improvements in his 
line, and that insures him the best 
trade. ^ 



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SPECIAL COMMITTEES. 

Joint coiinnittee to iiivestig'ate the 
"sweat shop" evil — Senators Noonan 
(chairman), Mahoney and Chapman; 
Representatives O'Donnell, Dearborn, 
Deneen emd May. 

Joint committee to investig^ate the 
Whisky Trust — Senators Salomon 
(chairman), Evans and Mahone^'; Rep- 
resentatives Smith of Living-ston, Mc- 
Inerney, Carlin, Paddock and Cherry. 

Joint committee to ascertain what 
additional accommodations are needed 
for the Appellate Court, First district 
— Senators Johnson (chairman), O'Mal- 
lev and Humphrey; Representatives 
Donnelly, Mclnerney and O'Connell. 

Senate committee to investig"ate 
charg-es ayainst the former manag^e- 
nient of the Joliet penitentiary — Sen- 
ators Green (chairman), O'Conor, 
Allen, Arnold, Manecke, Bacon and 
Howell. 

Senate committee to investigate the 
School Book and School Furniture 
Trusts — Senators Arnold (chairman), 
Noonan, Ford, O'Malley, Ferg-uson, 
Mussett and Humphrey'. 

House committee to investig-ate the 
"Big Four" railroad wreck at Wann — 
Representatives Fowler (chairman), 
McMillan, Snyder, Baldwin, Caug^hlan, 
Fletcher, Snedeker. 



HOLD=OVER SENATORS. 

The following state senators were 
elected in 1892 and hold over during 
the session of 1895: 

Aspinwall, rep., Stephenson. 

Barnes, dem., Marshall. 

Bartling-, dem.. Cook. 

Berr^', rep., Hancock. 

Bogardus, rep.. Ford. 

Brands, dem., Randolph. 

Campbell, dem., Hamilton. 

Coon, rep., Lake. 

Craig, dem., Coles. 

Dunlap, rep.. Champaign. 

Evans, rep., Kane. 

Ford, dem., Clinton. 

Green, dem., Alexander. 

Hamer, rep., Fulton. 

Hig-bee, dem.. Pike. 

Howell, rep., McLean. 

Hunter, rep., Winnebago. 

Johnson, dem.. Cook. 

Leeper, dem., Cass. 

Letourneau, rep., Kankakee. 

Mussett, rep., Edwards. 

Niehaus, dem., Peoria. 



Paisley, dem., Montgomery. 

Salomon, dem.. Cook. 

Wall, dem., Macoupin. 

The re-apportionment of senatorial 
districts will not affect the position of 
the above senators. They are all from 
even-numbered districts, and are di- 
vided politically 14 democrats and 11 
republicans. 



MEMBERS RETURNED. 

The following members of the pres- 
ent General Assembly were members 
of the legislature of 1891: 

Senators — 

Berry, Green, 

Bogardus, Hamer, 

Campbell, Higbee, 

Craig-, Hunt, 

Evans, EeeiDer. 

Representatives — 
Anderson, J. O., Mclnerney, 

Armstrong, May, 

Barton, Merritt, 

Beals, Meyer, Ernst, 

Berry, Myers, 

Bryan, Nohe, 

Burke, O'Connell, 

Callahan, O'Donnell, 

Carmody, O'Loug-hlin, 

Carson, Paddock, 

Cherry, Payne, 

Conway, Preston, 

Crafts, Reed, 

Dearborn, Rohrer, 

Donnelly, Smith, J. A., 

Duncan, Smith, W. S., 

Ellsworth, Spellman, 

Erickson, Straig-ht, 

Farrell, Stringer, 

Ferns, Talbot, 

Forsythe, Thiemann, 

Griggs, Tice, 

Hawiey, Warder. 

Hopkins, Watson, 

Kelly, Wilke, 

Kwasigroch, Wilson, J. P., 

Eyman, Wiwi, 
McCrone, — 65. 



This is the first General Assembly 
since that of 1881 that has not chosen 
a United States Senator. Shelby M. 
Cullom was elected in 1883 to succeed 
David Davis. John A. Logan was 
elected in 1885 to succeed himself after 
a four months' battle roval with Wm. 
R. Morrison. In 1887 Charles B. Far- 
well was chosen to succeed Gen. Logan 
who died in 1886. Senator Cullom was 
re-elected in 1889, and in 1891 John M. 
Palmer broke the republican record. 



102 LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIR. 



STATE OFFICERS. 

^^ 

■Governor John P. Altgeld, Dem,, Chicago 

Lieutenant=Qovernor Joseph B. Gill, Dem., Murphysboro 

-Secretary of State William H. Hinrichsen, Dem., Jacksonville 

State Treasurer Rufus N. Ramsay, Dem., Carlyle 

Attorney General flaurice T. flaloney, Dem., Ottawa 

Superintendent of Public Instruction Henry Raab, Dem., Belleville 

Auditor of Public Accounts David Gore, Dem., Carlinville 

Private Secretary to Governor Wm. F. Dose, Dem., Chicago 



SENATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES. 
-^ 

PRESIDENT Joseph B. Gill, Murphysboro 

PRESIDENT PRO TEM John W. Coppinger, Alton 

SECRETARY '. Finis E. Downing, Virginia 

First Assistant E. P. Kimball, Virden 

Second Assistant R. S. Bayne, Varna 

Reading Clerk Mrs. Phocion Howard, Danville 

President's Private Secretary CD. Tufts, Centralia 

Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk Fred J. Kern, Belleville 

First Assistant Harvey J. Jones, Carlyle 

Second Assistant Gerhart Weber, Hillsboro 

Sergeant-at-Arms Robert H. Davis, Carrollton 

First Assistant Edwin Bowen, Decatur 

Second Assistant Robert Welch, Chicago 

■Chaplain Rev. Dr. F. W. Taylor, Springfield 

Postmaster Mrs. M. O'Conner, Springfield 

Assistant Postmaster Miss Mary Turner, Mattoon 

Superintendent of Ventilation J. E. Judy 

Assistant W. H. Duckstein, Springfield 



HOUSE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES. 
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SPEAKER Clavton E. Crafts, Chicago 

CLERK ROB'T W. Ross, Vandalia 

First Assistant W. E. Handy, Tolono 

Second Assistant W. B. Morris, Golconda 

Third Assistant James E. Vail, Macomb 

Bill Clerk H. B. Lichtenberger, Freeport 

Custodian of Printed Bills Chas. T. Bouillon, Carlinville 

Doorkeeper E. S. Browne, Mendota 

First Assistant John N. Summers, Chicago 

Second Assistant John McDarrah, Rock Island 

Third Assistant B. W. Rives, Kankakee 

Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk ." A. E. Simonson, Dixon 

First Assistant Adam Gard, Marshall 

Second Assistant Louis I. Hutchins, Keithsburg 

Postmaster Miss Mollie McCabe, Springfield 

Asssistant Miss Kathryn Gallagher, Springfield 

Chaplain Rev. Joseph Hawkins, Lincoln 

Speaker's Private Secretary Will E. McGurren, Chicago 

Press Messenger George R. Berriman, Springfield 

Superintendent of Ventilation Theodore Adelman, Alton 

Chief Page Phocion Howard, Jr., Danville 



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NAFEW, JOHN A., chief clerk of 
the St. Nicholas Hotel, and one of the 
ino.st popular and best known men in 
Illinois, was born in Troy, N. Y., Sept. 
17, 1837, and is the oldest son of John 




CUIKI'" (Jl^KKK ftAl.'JbN\ . 

S. and Mary H. (Weaver) Nafew. He 
received a common school education, 
and begfan life as a drngg-ist in Albany, 
continuing it for four years. In '55 he 
moved to Chicago, and soon afterwards 



to Wisconsin, where he clerked in a 
hotel for a year. For three years he 
was clerk of the old Pike House, Bloom- 
ington. 111., and in '60 he entered the 
ot¥ice of the St. Nicholas, at Spring- 
held, remaining until '65, when he was 
made general ticket eigent of the Jef- 
fersonville railroad. In two years he 
returned to the St. Nicholas, and then 
took charge of the American House, 
which he ran acceptably for three 
years, and returned to the old reliable 
St. Nicholas, where he has been ever 
since. In '63 he married Miss E. 
Frank Mclntire, of Springfield, and 
one daughter has been born to them. 
He is a Royal Arch Chapter Mason; 
was master workman in Lodge 37, A. 
O. U. W., for two \'ears and has been 
a member of the Hotel Men's associa- 
tion for years. December 17, '92, his 
friends among the traveling public and 
guests of the St. Nicholas compli- 
mented his uniform courtesy and 
efforts to please by tendering him a 
complimentary banquet, at which he 
was presented with a handsome watch 
charm of virgin gold, in tablet form, 
with large star set in diamonds. On 
the tablets were engraved the names 
of about fiftv friends of Mr. Nafew. 




MAIX DIXING ROOM, ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL. 



104 



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ITALIAN MARBLE STATUE, CUT FROM PHOTO, BY RICHTER 
& DOEAND, ARTISTIC MONUMENTS, SPRINGFIEED. 



I,KC.ISI,ATIVE SOUVKNIK. 



105 




THE CAPITOI,. 



106 



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107 






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THE IJXCOLN MONUMENT. 



108 



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OUTFITTERS TO THE STATESMEN OF ILLINOIS. 



LEGISLATIVE SOUVENIK. 



109 




EXECUTIVE MANSION —GOV. ALTGEI<D'S RESIDENCE. 




THE LINCOLN HOME. 



110 



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LKGISI.ATIVE SOUVEN'IK. 



Ill 




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SENATORIAL DISTRICTS 

AS FIXED BY THE 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

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State Officers— 

Altg-eld, John P 4 

Gill, Joseph B 5 

Hinrichsen, William H 6 

Maloney , Maurice T 9 

Raab, Henry 8 

Ramsay, Ruf us N 7 

The Senate — 

Davis, Robert H., Sergeant-at-Arms 17 

Downing-, Finis E., Secretary 17 

Taylor, Rev. Dr. F. W., Chaplain 38 

Senators, arranged alphabetically, beginning 18 

The House — 

Browne, Edgar S., Doorkeeper 42 

Crafts, Clayton E., Speaker 39 

Ross, Robert W., Clerk 41 

Representatives, arranged alphabetically, beginning- 42 

Other Sketches — 

Freeman, Norman E., Reporter Supreme Court 11 

Hereford, Arthur E., Printer Expert 15 

Jones, George W., Clerk Appellate Court 12 

Orendorff, Alfred, Adjutant General 10 

Paddock, James H., Ex-Secretary Railroad Commissioners 15 

Snively, Ethan A., Clerk Supreme Court 12 

Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners — 

Cantrell, William S., Chairman of Board 13 

Gahan, Thomas 14 

Eape, Charles F 13 

Yantis, John W., Secretary 14 

Bunker, George P., Chief Grain Inspector 99 

Wagner, Eouis, Registrar 100 

The Press Gai,i.ery — 

Burdett, Sam. M 95 

Davis, J. McCan 98 

Hollman, J. C 94 

Fitzmaurice, D. C 97 

Graham, W. A. S 95 

Jones, A.J 96 

Kidd,T. W. S 97 

MacMillan, T. C 94 

Mitchell, H. R 98 

Pickering, J. E 99 

Sullivan, W. K 96 

Vaughn, J. E 98 

Matters of Interest — 

Brief mention of past newspaper correspondents 93 

Hold-over Senators ' 101 

House officers, Eist of 102 

Eist of Chief Grain Inspectors and Registrars 99 

Map showing new senatorial districts 114 

Members Returned in 1892 101 

Representatives, compensation, etc 41 

Special Committees, Joint and Senate and House 101 

Senate officers, Eist of. 102 

Senators, compensation, etc 17 

State officers, Eist of 102 

Steering committees, Senate and House 41 

The general assembly, facts in regard to . . , 17 



